PeopleofSuperintelligence

Builder

Benjamin Chess

Also known as Ben Chess

Benjamin Chess is an AI infrastructure engineer whose work spans large language models and the systems that support AI workloads. He co-authored the GPT-3 few-shot study, which received a 2020 NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award, and papers on model scaling, browser-assisted question answering, and GPT-4. At Atero, he helped build software for GPU management and memory optimization in AI inference. Since 2025, he is part of Crusoe’s engineering organization after Crusoe acquired Atero.

Now at
Crusoe
Works
3

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026. Citations and h-index are hidden because this OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors.

Timeline

  1. 2020

    A NeurIPS Outstanding Paper

    He co-authors ‘Language Models are Few-Shot Learners,’ which studies GPT-3’s few-shot performance. NeurIPS names the paper an Outstanding Paper in 2020.

  2. 2020

    Scaling language models

    In 2020, he co-authors ‘Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models,’ which reports power-law relations between model loss, model size, dataset size, and training compute.

  3. 2021

    WebGPT and human feedback

    In 2021, he co-authors WebGPT, which fine-tunes GPT-3 to answer long-form questions in a text-based web-browsing environment and optimizes answer quality with human feedback.

  4. 2023

    GPT-4 technical report

    He co-authors OpenAI’s GPT-4 Technical Report, submitted in March 2023, which describes a multimodal model that accepts image and text inputs.

  5. 2024

    Co-founding Atero

    He co-founds Atero with Alon Yariv, Omer Landau, and Eyal Salomon in 2024. The company builds software to coordinate AI workloads and optimize GPU memory for large-scale inference.

  6. Since 2025

    Crusoe infrastructure engineering

    In August 2025, he joins Crusoe’s engineering organization with Atero’s team after Crusoe acquires the company.

Sources and credits

Photo: We have no published photo of Benjamin Chess yet. Send us a free-licensed photo.

  1. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. NeurIPS 2020 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. WebGPT: Browser-assisted question-answering with human feedback arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. GPT-4 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Atero - lool ventures lool.vc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Why We Invested in Atero—and Why Crusoe Agreed primary.vc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Crusoe Acquires Atero as Inference Becomes the Economic Center of AI aimmediahouse.com. Checked 15 October 2026.