‘GPT 4o would not have happened without him’: Meet Indian mastermind behind OpenAI’s new AI model – Technology News

As ChatGPT 4o comes into the picture, Sam Altman praises the Indian mastermind Prafulla Dhariwal for the successful launch of the company’s latest flagship AI model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has credited Indian prodigy Prafulla Dhariwal for the successful launch of the company’s latest flagship AI model, GPT-4o. 

Sam Altman, the guy heading OpenAI, publicly announced that ChatGPT 4o comes through the Omni team. San Altman tweeted that ‘ChatGPT 4o would not have been possible without Dhariwal’.  Furthermore, he specifically mentioned the name of an Indian techie whiz, Prafulla Dhariwal, adding that he made the new version of ChatGPT happen.

Who is Prafulla Dhariwal?

Prafulla Dhariwal is a native of Pune. He had long been recognised for his academic and scientific achievements. Earlier in 2009 he had  won the National Talent Search Scholarship from the Government of India. That same year, he also got a gold medal at the International Astronomy Olympiad held in China. 

Additionally, he won gold medals at both the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2012 and the International Physics Olympiad in 2013. Dhariwal’s best series of work at OpenAI includes the DALL-E 2 image generation tool and  ChatGPT 4o, among others. 

It is believed that Dhariwal being a part of the Omni team was instrumental in the advancement of ChatGPT to the Omni level that we all got to see last Monday.

 Altman and Prafulla speak!

“GPT-4o would not have happened without the vision, talent, conviction, and determination of Prafulla Dhariwal over a long period of time. That, along with the work of many others, led to what I hope will turn out to be a revolution in how we use computers,” Altman highlighted in the post made on X.

Overwhelmed with the post, “GPT-4o (o for “omni”) is the first model to come out of the omni team, OpenAI’s first natively fully multimodal model. This launch was a huge org-wide effort, but I’d like to give a shout out to a few of my awesome team members who made this magical model even possible!” Prafulla replied in another post made on X.

The plan ahead!

Indian-origin techies seem to have become a core part of the tech industry over the years.

From what it is understood tech giants such as OpenAI and Google will be going for the juggernaut with their respective AI ambitions. However, Google seems to take things slow and steady. 

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