Jakub Pachocki
TL;DR Jakub Pachocki is the Chief Scientist of OpenAI, guiding the company’s frontier research in artificial general intelligence, alignment, and reasoning models that have set new global benchmarks for AI capability.
Jakub Pachocki by Sora
Jakub Pachocki is a computer scientist and researcher recognized for his leadership in advancing artificial intelligence toward human-level reasoning and problem-solving. In 2024, he was appointed Chief Scientist at OpenAI, succeeding Ilya Sutskever and taking charge of the organization’s most ambitious research agenda in artificial general intelligence (AGI), alignment, and multimodal system design. His tenure marks a new phase in OpenAI’s evolution, one centered on interpretability, mathematical reasoning, and autonomous discovery.
Under Pachocki’s guidance, OpenAI shifted its research priorities toward reasoning models, systems designed to think, plan, and solve problems with greater autonomy and precision. By emphasizing AI as an empirical science, he led efforts to understand deep learning as a natural phenomenon rather than merely an engineering discipline. This perspective shaped OpenAI’s work on Deep Research, a suite of internal tools built to empower AI systems to conduct scientific inquiry and extend their own capabilities.
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Pachocki’s teams achieved major milestones: AI models that earned gold-medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, exceeded human performance in competitive programming, and advanced multimodal understanding across text, code, and vision. His work also reflected a balance between ambition and responsibility, maintaining OpenAI’s focus on safe deployment, global collaboration, and the ethical integration of advanced AI into society.
Pachocki’s leadership blends scientific rigor with strategic vision, steering OpenAI to remain both a research powerhouse and a pioneer in the responsible advancement of artificial intelligence.
Appointed Chief Scientist at OpenAI (2024), succeeding Ilya Sutskever and directing frontier AGI and alignment research
Redefined OpenAI’s research focus toward reasoning models capable of mathematical and conceptual problem-solving
Led models achieving gold-medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad and surpassing humans in programming contests.
Introduced OpenAI’s Deep Research, a tool suite enabling AI systems to perform autonomous investigation and self-improvement
Advanced the concept of AI as a natural science, emphasizing empirical study of neural network behavior and emergent reasoning
Championed safe and responsible AI deployment, reinforcing OpenAI’s global leadership in AI ethics and transparency
Guided multimodal system development, integrating language, vision, and symbolic reasoning into unified AI frameworks
Jakub Pachocki’s vision for OpenAI represents a fusion of scientific curiosity and strategic foresight, transforming AI research from applied engineering into a proper discipline of discovery.
