- Research scientist, Google DeepMind since 202512
Arvind Neelakantan is a research scientist at Google DeepMind working on Gemini's agentic capabilities. He previously worked at Meta GenAI, spent more than four years at OpenAI as a member of technical staff (co-authoring GPT-3 and GPT-4 and co-founding OpenAI embeddings), and earlier was a research scientist at Google Brain. He earned a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst as a Google PhD Fellow.123
At a glance
- Current role
- Research scientist
- Company
- Google DeepMind
- Fields
- Language models, Agents, Developer tools
- Sources cited
- 3
- Profile reviewed
Accomplishments
OpenAI embeddings and GPT
At OpenAI (2020–2024) Neelakantan co-authored GPT-3 and GPT-4 and co-founded and led OpenAI embeddings (v1–v3), managing embeddings, retrieval, fine-tuning, and inference research teams, as documented on his resume and UCSB lecture bio.23
DeepMind and earlier research
His personal site lists him as a DeepMind research scientist after stints at Meta GenAI and Google Brain; earlier work includes knowledge-base completion and neural program induction with NeurIPS and AKBC best-paper awards.12
Timeline
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Where they work
- Google DeepMind 71 people in the wiki
Related people
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- Paige BaileyAlso at Google DeepMind
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- Graham NeubigAgents · Language models
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- Binyuan HuiAgents · Language models
- Harrison ChaseAgents · Developer tools
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3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026