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Prafulla Dhariwal
OpenAI; GPT-4o lead
OpenAI researcher; lead author of GPT-4o (2024) and previously of GLIDE and the original VQ-VAE-2 image generation work.
current Researcher, OpenAI
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Build faster; delay costs more than capabilityArchitect of OpenAI's unified multimodal flagship; argues unified end-to-end models will replace pipelined modality-specific systems.
GPT-4o is our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. The end-to-end training over modalities is what unlocks low-latency interaction.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.