Jared Kaplan

BS in Physics and Mathematics from Stanford; PhD in Physics from Harvard (thesis on holography, advised by Nima Arkani-Hamed). Associate Professor of Physics at Johns Hopkins (2012+). Joined OpenAI in 2019 and co-authored the landmark "Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models" (2020), empirically demonstrating that LLM performance improves predictably with scale. Co-founded Anthropic in 2021.