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Luke Miller

Luke Miller is an AI product builder whose OpenAI career spans GPT-3 deployment, InstructGPT, and the DALL·E 2 API. At Smarterer, he rose from intern to product manager as the skills-assessment company sold to Pluralsight in 2014. He coauthored the InstructGPT study and discussed how deployments teach OpenAI lessons in safety and engineering. As of October 2026, he is a product manager in San Francisco focused on model behavior, evaluations, and AI products, and advises Zero Shot Fund.

Now at
OpenAI

Timeline

  1. 2014

    From intern to product manager

    At Smarterer, he starts as an intern and rises to product manager as the skills-assessment company sells to Pluralsight in 2014.

  2. By 2022

    Product management at OpenAI

    By 2022, he is a product manager at OpenAI. He says each deployment teaches the company lessons in safety and engineering and shows how its technology can create value.

  3. 2022

    Coauthoring InstructGPT

    He coauthors the InstructGPT study in 2022, which fine-tunes GPT-3 on labeler demonstrations and rankings of model outputs, then uses reinforcement learning from human feedback to align responses with user intent.

  4. November 2022

    Opening the DALL·E 2 API

    OpenAI makes the DALL·E 2 API available to developers in November 2022. Miller, the product manager overseeing its development, encourages disclosure that images are AI-generated and says the DALL·E 2 signature is optional.

  5. As of October 2026

    Advisor to Zero Shot Fund

    In April 2026, he is an advisor to Zero Shot Fund and a former OpenAI product leader. The fund backs founders across robotics, energy, automation, infrastructure, security, and observability.

  6. As of October 2026

    AI product work in San Francisco

    As of October 2026, he is a product manager in San Francisco focused on model behavior, evals, and building AI products.

Career

  1. From 2022OpenAIProduct Manager
  2. Until 2014SmartererIntern

From the biography.

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes OpenAI. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. 22 of 133 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes OpenAI. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where 133 people with former OpenAI roles work now, including the companies and labs they founded.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes OpenAI. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes OpenAI. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. The Storyer of Smarterer (Part II) buttondown.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. AI-Generated Fashion Is Next Wave of DIY Design spectrum.ieee.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. [2203.02155] Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Now anyone can build apps that use DALL-E 2 to generate images techcrunch.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund techcrunch.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Zero Shot Fund | Backing AI-Native Founders zeroshotfund.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Luke Miller lukemiller.info. Checked 21 October 2026.