John Schulman

Chief Scientist , Thinking Machines Lab

John Schulman is an American artificial intelligence researcher and co‑founder of OpenAI, where he led the reinforcement learning team that created ChatGPT. After leaving OpenAI in August 2024, he briefly joined Anthropic before co‑founding Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025, where he currently serves as chief scientist. Current role is Chief Scientist at Thinking Machines Lab. Earlier roles include Co‑founder / Head of Reinforcement Learning at OpenAI and Researcher at Anthropic.