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Greg Brockman

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Greg Brockman
Photo of Greg Brockman at Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019
Brockman in 2019
Born (1987-11-29) November 29, 1987 (age 38)
Thompson, North Dakota, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (transferred)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (dropped out)
Occupations
  • Software engineer
  • entrepreneur
Known for
Spouse
Anna Brockman
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(m. 2019)​
Websitegregbrockman.com

Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder[1] and president of OpenAI.[2] He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO[3] in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015[4] to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO.[5][6][7]

Early life

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Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science.[5][8] He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad[9] and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973.[10] In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students.[11] In 2008, Brockman enrolled at Harvard University but left a year later, briefly enrolling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5][12]

Career

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In 2010, he dropped out of MIT to join Stripe, a company founded by Patrick Collison, his MIT classmate, and John Collison. In 2013, he became Stripe's first CTO, while the company grew from 5 to 205 employees.[7][13] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015.[13]

OpenAI

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Brockman met with Sam Altman and Elon Musk, and led the recruiting of the OpenAI founding team. Many of its members, including Ilya Sutskever, were top AI research talent that left high paying jobs for the opportunity at OpenAI.[14][15] He co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 alongside Altman, Sutskever and others.[16] The company initially operated from Brockman's living room.[17]

He led various projects at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot.[18][19]

On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2,[20] but kept it private due to their concern for its potential misuse. They released the model to a limited group of beta testers in May 2019.[5]

On March 14, 2023, in a live video demo, Brockman unveiled GPT-4, the fourth iteration in the GPT series.[21][6][22]

On November 17, 2023, alongside the firing of Sam Altman, Brockman was told he had been removed from the board. Sutskever supplied the board with a document of alleged bullying by Brockman. Mira Murati said Brockman's relationship with Altman made it impossible for her to do her job, and Altman had already "fielded many requests from OpenAI employees to rein in Brockman".[23][17] Brockman was to report to Murati,[24][25] but on November 17, he announced that he had quit the company.[26]

On November 20, 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Brockman and Altman would join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.[27] The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO, Brockman returned to OpenAI.[28] Brockman took a sabbatical from August to November 2024.[29][30]

Elon Musk lawsuit

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Jury selection for OpenAI cofounder Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its current executives, including Brockman, began on April 27, 2026.[31][32] On April 28, 2026, Elon Musk began his testimony against Altman and OpenAI.[33] On May 18, 2026, the jury decided in favor of Altman, Brockman and OpenAI, finding that Musk's claims were barred by the statute of limitations.[34]

Personal life

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In November 2019 after a year of dating, Brockman married Anna at OpenAI's offices on a workday. Ilya Sutskever officiated the wedding.[5][17] As of July 2026, Brockman's net worth was estimated at $25.5 billion according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with the vast majority of his fortune coming from his stake in OpenAI.[35]

Political activities

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Brockman and his wife were the biggest donors to Donald Trump's Super PAC, MAGA Inc., in 2025 with each of them donating US$12.5 million.[36][37] Brockman and his wife also donated $50 million to Leading the Future, a super PAC dedicated to AI deregulation that he helped found with Andreessen Horowitz co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.[38][39] OpenAI publicly expressed openness to increased regulatory oversight and has a policy against donating to such Super PACs.[40] Greg & Anna donated $25 million to MAGA Inc. and $25 million Leading the Future in 2026.[41]

References

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  1. ↑ Geron, Tomio (2019-03-12). "Nonprofit AI Lab Alters Structure to Build Massive Computing Power". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2023-11-18. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  2. ↑ Sam Altman (May 5, 2022). "OpenAI leadership team update". OpenAI. Archived from the original on January 12, 2024. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  3. ↑ Peterson, Andrea (2015-12-14). "Group wants to make sure artificial intelligence is developed responsibly". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  4. ↑ Biz Carson (May 6, 2015). "One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company". Insider. Archived from the original on March 26, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Hao, Karen (February 17, 2020). "The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI's bid to save the world". MIT Technology Review. Archived from the original on 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  6. 1 2 Wiggers, Kyle (2023-03-15). "Interview with OpenAI's Greg Brockman: GPT-4 isn't perfect, but neither are you". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 2023-11-27. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  7. 1 2 Popkin, Helen A. S. "30 Under 30 In Enterprise Tech: Reinventing Business With Artificial Intelligence". Forbes. Archived from the original on 2022-03-26. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  8. ↑ "Gregory Brockman". The Creativity Foundation. Archived from the original on 2021-10-26. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  9. ↑ "38th ICHO, 2006". International Chemistry Olympiad. Archived from the original on 30 November 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "Greg Brockman, Intel Science Talent Search finalist, Grand Forks". Grand Forks Herald. 2007-02-04. Archived from the original on 2025-05-15. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  11. ↑ "58th Annual Summary of High School Results and Awards" (PDF). Mathematical Association of America. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  12. ↑ "Ivy League Dropout Greg Brockman Is Leading the AI Revolution – C-Suite Spotlight". 23 August 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-10-04. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  13. 1 2 Carson, Biz. "One of the first employees of $3.5 billion startup Stripe is leaving to form his own company". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 2022-03-26. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  14. ↑ Cade Metz (April 27, 2016). "Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free". Wired. Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
  15. ↑ Metz, Cade (April 19, 2018). "A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2025.
  16. ↑ Tremayne-Pengelly, Alexandra (2024-07-12). "Only 4 of OpenAI's 11 Founders Are Still With the Company—Where Are the Rest of Them?". Observer. Archived from the original on 2025-07-29. Retrieved 2025-08-17.
  17. 1 2 3 Seetharaman, Deepa (September 27, 2024). "Turning OpenAI Into a Real Business Is Tearing It Apart". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on May 12, 2026. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  18. ↑ Statt, Nick (2019-04-13). "OpenAI's Dota 2 AI steamrolls world champion e-sports team with back-to-back victories". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  19. ↑ Tsukayama, Hayley (June 28, 2018). "OpenAI's bot beat a human at video games last year. Now it will take on five at once". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  20. ↑ Vincent, James (2019-02-14). "OpenAI's new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders". The Verge. Archived from the original on 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  21. ↑ Chan, Kelvin (March 15, 2023). "What can ChatGPT maker's new AI model GPT-4 do?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2023-06-21. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  22. ↑ Brockman, Greg (2023-04-20), "Greg Brockman: The inside story of ChatGPT's astonishing potential", Ted Talk, Ted.com, archived from the original on 2023-04-20, retrieved 2023-04-23
  23. ↑ Hagey, Keach (May 20, 2025). The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 286–287. ISBN 978-1324075967.
  24. ↑ "Sam and I are shocked and saddened by what the board did today". X. November 18, 2023. Archived from the original on November 18, 2023. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
  25. ↑ "OpenAI announces leadership transition". openai.com. Archived from the original on 2023-11-17. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  26. ↑ "After learning today's news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team". X. November 17, 2023. Archived from the original on December 10, 2024. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Satya Nadella on X: "We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett…" / X". X (formerly Twitter). Archived from the original on 2023-11-20. Retrieved 2023-11-20.
  28. ↑ Heath, Alex (22 November 2023). "Breaking: Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI". The Verge. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  29. ↑ Seetharaman, Deepa; Jin, Berber; Dotan, Tom (September 25, 2024). "OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on April 27, 2025. Retrieved September 28, 2024.
  30. ↑ "OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman returns to ChatGPT maker". Reuters. 12 November 2024. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
  31. ↑ Capoot, Ashley (April 27, 2026). "Jury selection kicks off in Musk v. Altman trial". CNBC. Archived from the original on May 1, 2026. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  32. ↑ Ruwitch, John (2026-04-27). "Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court over the fate of OpenAI". NPR. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
  33. ↑ Ruwitch, John (April 28, 2026). "Elon Musk testifies against OpenAI, seeking Sam Altman's ouster". NPR. Archived from the original on April 29, 2026. Retrieved April 30, 2026.
  34. ↑ Wells, Georgia; Au-Yeung, Angel (May 18, 2026). "Jury Rejects Musk's Claims Against OpenAI". Archived from the original on July 14, 2026. Retrieved July 14, 2026 – via www.wsj.com.
  35. ↑ "Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Greg Brockman". Bloomberg Billionaires Index. July 13, 2026. Retrieved July 14, 2026.
  36. ↑ Vogel, Kenneth P.; Yourish, Karen (2026-01-02). "Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-05-31.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  37. ↑ "FEC Disclosure Form 3X for MAGA INC". docquery.fec.gov. Archived from the original on 2026-01-02. Retrieved 2026-01-02.
  38. ↑ Schleifer, Theodore; Tan, Eli (August 26, 2025). "Silicon Valley Pledges $200 Million to New Pro-A.I. Super PACs". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 20, 2026. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  39. ↑ Goldman, Sharon (November 5, 2025). "Meet the power broker of the AI age: OpenAI's 'builder-in-chief' helping to turn Sam Altman's trillion-dollar data center dreams into reality". Fortune. Archived from the original on December 26, 2025. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  40. ↑ Farrow, Ronan; Marantz, Andrew (April 6, 2026). "Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 8, 2026. Retrieved April 8, 2026.
  41. ↑ Morse, Clara Ence; Shapiro, Leslie; Somasundaram, Praveena; Lau, Eric (2026-08-22). "Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.6 billion into the 2026 elections". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2026-08-24. Retrieved 2026-08-28.
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