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Nick Ryder

Nick Ryder is VP of Research at OpenAI, where they lead data and scaling research. From 2014 to 2019 they studied mathematics as a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, advised by Nikhil Srivastava. In May 2020 they co-authored Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, a paper that NeurIPS named an Outstanding Paper in 2020. In July 2021 they contributed to Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code. In December 2024, OpenAI filed a court declaration from them, which said two Internet-based book corpora were used to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5.

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Timeline

  1. 2014–2019

    A mathematics PhD at Berkeley

    They study mathematics as a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley from 2014 to 2019, advised by Nikhil Srivastava.

  2. May 2020

    The few-shot learners paper

    They co-author Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, posted to arXiv in May 2020.

  3. 2020

    An outstanding paper at NeurIPS

    In 2020 NeurIPS names Language Models are Few-Shot Learners an Outstanding Paper, with them among its authors.

  4. July 2021

    Evaluating models trained on code

    They contribute to Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code, posted to arXiv in July 2021.

  5. December 2024

    A court declaration on training data

    In December 2024, OpenAI files a court declaration from them, which says two Internet-based book corpora were used to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5.

  6. Since 2024

    VP of Research at OpenAI

    From 2024 they lead data and scaling research as VP of Research at OpenAI.

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  1. Nick Ryder | alphaXiv alphaxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. [2005.14165] Language Models are Few-Shot Learners arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. NeurIPS 2020 Awards neurips.cc. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. [2107.03374] Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Nick Ryder, VP of Research, Foundations OpenAI, says: 2 Internet-based books corpora were used to train GPT 3, 3.5, but not “any subsequent OpenAI GPT model” – Chat GPT Is Eating the World chatgptiseatingtheworld.com. Checked 15 October 2026.