John Schulman is co-founder and chief scientist at Thinking Machines, studying how AI systems learn and improve. A co-founder of OpenAI, he led the creation of ChatGPT and co-led its post-training team before working on alignment at Anthropic. His path from physics to Berkeley robotics and reinforcement learning informs a research style centered on useful experiments, robust learning methods and institutions that support long-term discovery.
John Schulman is co-founder and chief scientist at Thinking Machines, studying how AI systems learn and improve. A co-founder of OpenAI, he led the creation of ChatGPT and co-led its post-training team before working on alignment at Anthropic. His path from physics to Berkeley robotics and reinforcement learning informs a research style centered on useful experiments, robust learning methods and institutions that support long-term discovery.
Career
Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines from 2025-02 to Present.
Alignment Science at Anthropic from 2024-08 to 2025-02.
Co-founder and Research Scientist at OpenAI from 2015 to 2024-08.