Greg Brockman
American entrepreneur, investor and software developer (born 1987)
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Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder[2] and president of OpenAI.[3] He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and became CTO[4] in 2013. He left Stripe in 2015[5] to co-found OpenAI, where he also served as CTO.[6][7][8]
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (dropped out)
- Software engineer
- entrepreneur
Greg Brockman | |
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Brockman at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco (2019) | |
| Born | November 29, 1987 Thompson, North Dakota, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (transferred out) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (dropped out) |
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Anna Brockman (m. 2019) |
| Parent(s) | Ron Brockman and Ellen Feldman[1] |
| Website | gregbrockman |
Early life
Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science.[6][9] He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad[10] and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973.[11] In 2003, 2005, and 2007, he attended Canada/USA Mathcamp, a summer program for mathematically talented high-school students.[12] In 2008, Brockman enrolled in Harvard University, but left a year later, before briefly enrolling at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6][13]
Career
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.[8][14] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015.[14]
OpenAI
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.[15][16] He co-founded OpenAI in December 2015 alongside Altman, Sutskever and others.[17] The company initially operated from Brockman's living room.[18]
He led various projects at OpenAI, including OpenAI Gym and OpenAI Five, a Dota 2 bot.[19][20]
On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2,[21] 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.[6]
On March 14, 2023, in a live video demo, Brockman unveiled GPT-4, the fourth iteration in the GPT series.[22][7][23]
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".[24][18] Brockman was to report to Murati,[25][26] but on November 17, he announced that he had quit the company.[27]
On November 20, 2023, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Brockman and Altman would join Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team.[28] The following day, after a deal was reached to reinstate Altman as CEO, Brockman returned to OpenAI.[29] Brockman took a sabbatical from August to November 2024.[30][31]
Personal life
Political activities
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.[32][33] 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.[34][35]
