Sam McCandlish is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Anthropic, where he works on large-scale model training and AI research. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at OpenAI and contributed to research on neural-network scaling and language-model training. He holds a PhD in physics from Stanford University.
Sam McCandlish is a co-founder and Chief Architect at Anthropic, where he works on large-scale model training and AI research. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at OpenAI and contributed to research on neural-network scaling and language-model training. He holds a PhD in physics from Stanford University.
Career
Sam McCandlish holds a PhD in Physics from Stanford University.
Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Anthropic from 2021-01 to PresentWorks on large-scale model training and AI research. Co-authored Anthropic research on helpful and harmless assistants using reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI from 2018 to 2020Contributed to research on gradient noise scale and neural-language-model scaling laws. Co-authored OpenAI research on scaling laws for neural language models.