Peter Welinder
VP of Product at OpenAI- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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OpenAI
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United States
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Research Services
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400 - 500 Employee
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VP of Product
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2020 - 3 years
San Francisco Bay Area I run OpenAI's product and commercialization efforts, including GPT-4, ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, Codex and Github Copilot (in collaboration with Github). Hiring for roles across safety and product policy, engineering, product, design, research and Go-To-Market. We building the future platform for AI. Reach out if you're interested!
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Product, Engineering & Research Lead
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2020 - 2020
San Francisco Bay Area Led the product, engineering and research teams for the OpenAI GPT-3 API from early-stage prototype to launch.
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Research Lead
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2017 - 2020
San Francisco Bay Area I was a founding member of the Robotics research effort at OpenAI. Incredibly fun work. Some of the projects included: - Training a robot hand to solve Rubik's Cube: https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/ - OpenAI Remote Rendering Backend (ORRB): https://github.com/openai/orrb - Learning Dexterity: https://openai.com/blog/learning-dexterity/ - mujoco-py (python interface to MuJoCo): https://github.com/openai/mujoco-py - Robot Imitation Learning:… Show more I was a founding member of the Robotics research effort at OpenAI. Incredibly fun work. Some of the projects included: - Training a robot hand to solve Rubik's Cube: https://openai.com/blog/solving-rubiks-cube/ - OpenAI Remote Rendering Backend (ORRB): https://github.com/openai/orrb - Learning Dexterity: https://openai.com/blog/learning-dexterity/ - mujoco-py (python interface to MuJoCo): https://github.com/openai/mujoco-py - Robot Imitation Learning: https://openai.com/blog/robots-that-learn/
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Basis Set
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United States
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Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Advisor
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Aug 2017 - 6 years 5 months
San Francisco Bay Area Basis Set Ventures is a $136M fund focused on future-of-work and AI companies. I evaluate and advice early stage companies.
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Dropbox
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Head of Machine Learning
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Jul 2014 - Dec 2016
San Francisco Bay Area Founded and managed the Machine Learning Team at Dropbox. The team worked with other departments across the organization to identify, develop and ship machine learning solutions to improve products and optimize revenue. Acted as product manager for shipping features in Dropbox Recents and Dropbox Scanner on iOS and Android.
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Software Engineer Tech Lead
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Sep 2012 - Jul 2014
San Francisco Bay Area Lead the Dropbox Photos infrastructure and computer vision teams. - Directly responsible for backend infrastructure and machine learning algorithms supporting the launch of Dropbox's Carousel photos-app to millions of users in April 2014. - Lead the architecture and implementation of infrastructure supporting billions of photos and millions of users. - Lead development of multiple new computer vision and machine learning technologies shipped in the Dropbox product.
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Co-founder and CEO
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Oct 2010 - Sep 2012
Menlo Park, CA Applied computer vision to automatic photo organization. Acquired by Dropbox in September 2012.
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Education
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California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Computation and Neural Systems -
Imperial College London
BSc, Theoretical Physics