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Alec Radford

Listed with an "Independent" affiliation on 2026 arXiv papers · Independent researcher

At a glance. Alec Radford is listed as Listed with an "Independent" affiliation on 2026 arXiv papers at Independent researcher. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Language models, Multimodal models and Speech and audio. The source lists open-role pages for OpenAI.

Summary

First author of GPT-2, CLIP and Whisper at OpenAI; independent researcher on 2026 papers.

Known for: CLIP; Whisper; GPT-2.

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  • Author affiliated with OpenAI on the scaling-laws (2020), CLIP (2021) and Whisper (2022) papers, OpenAI

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