From LoL top-30 to RLHF pioneer: Diogo Almeida raises $870M at $7.5B valuation in 3 weeks
JenniferHli · x · 2026-10-10
A greentext-style bio traces Diogo Almeida's path: IMO bronze, Google Brain, quitting to travel and hit LoL top-30, then OpenAI where he helped pioneer RLHF/InstructGPT and build ChatGPT. After two years in stealth on reliable AI decisions, his new model launched — and 3 weeks later raised an $870M Series A at a $7.5B valuation.
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