PeopleofSuperintelligence

Lab leader

Jerry Tworek

Jerry Tworek is an AI research leader whose work spans robotics, code models, and language-model reasoning. He studied mathematics at Warsaw University, entered quantitative finance, and joined OpenAI in 2019. He co-authored research on a robot hand that solves a Rubik’s Cube, the Codex paper, and the GPT-4 technical report, then led the team behind o1. He was OpenAI’s vice president of research in October 2025 and left in January 2026 to explore research that was hard to do there. As of October 2026, he is co-founder and CEO of Core Automation.

Now at
Core Automation
Works
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Timeline

  1. 2012

    Mathematics and finance

    He studies mathematics at Warsaw University, interns at Google, and joins a hedge fund in 2012 to work on stock-market algorithms.

  2. 2019

    A Rubik’s Cube robot

    After joining OpenAI in 2019, he co-authors research on a robot hand that solves a Rubik’s Cube with policies trained in simulation and used on a real robot.

  3. 2021

    Codex and code generation

    In 2021, he co-authors the research paper that introduces Codex, a language model fine-tuned on public GitHub code to write Python.

  4. March 2023

    A GPT-4 technical report

    In March 2023, he co-authors GPT-4’s technical report, which describes a multimodal model that accepts image and text inputs and produces text.

  5. September 2024

    Leading o1 reasoning

    In September 2024, he leads the team behind OpenAI o1, a reasoning model released that month.

  6. October 2025

    Vice president of research

    In October 2025, he is OpenAI’s vice president of research.

  7. January 2026

    Leaving OpenAI

    In January 2026, he tells OpenAI staff that he is leaving to explore research that is hard to do there.

  8. As of October 2026

    Core Automation CEO

    As of October 2026, he is co-founder and CEO of Core Automation, which builds models and agents to automate its research.

Sources and credits

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  1. Jerry Tworek: New solutions at hand sztucznainteligencja.org.pl. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. [1910.07113] Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. [2107.03374] Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. [2303.08774] GPT-4 Technical Report arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Seven Years of Scaling RL: Jerry Tworek on o1, the Death of Evals, and Why Transformers Can't Learn at Test Time blog.agihouse.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. How GPT-5 Thinks — OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek | The MAD Podcast mattturck.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride? wired.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Jerry Tworek & Core Automation, Auto-research is moving from benchmarks to real-world loops agihousecommunity.beehiiv.com. Checked 15 October 2026.
  9. Beyond transformers: Core Automation's algorithmic gamble dealroom.co. Checked 15 October 2026.