Christopher Berner
Also known as Chris Berner, cberner
Christopher Berner co-authored the Dota 2 reinforcement-learning paper and the GPT-3 paper. In 2018 he was OpenAI's Head of Infrastructure, and he said the lab used Kubernetes mainly as a batch scheduling system. The Dota 2 paper describes OpenAI Five, which in April 2019 became the first AI system to defeat the world champions at an esports game. The GPT-3 paper, Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, was posted in May 2020 and received an Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS 2020. As of October 2026, his GitHub account gives OpenAI as his organization.
Timeline
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2018
Head of Infrastructure at OpenAI
He serves as OpenAI's Head of Infrastructure in 2018. He says the lab uses Kubernetes mainly as a batch scheduling system.
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December 2019
A Dota 2 reinforcement-learning paper
He co-authors the paper Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning, posted in December 2019. The paper describes OpenAI Five, which in April 2019 becomes the first AI system to defeat the world champions at an esports game.
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May 2020
A co-author of GPT-3
He co-authors the paper Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, which trains GPT-3, an autoregressive language model with 175 billion parameters.
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2020
An outstanding paper award
He is among the authors of Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, which receives an Outstanding Paper award at NeurIPS 2020.
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As of October 2026
OpenAI on his GitHub profile
His GitHub account gives OpenAI as his organization.
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