Prafulla Dhariwal, a research scientist at OpenAI, was commended by CEO Sam Altman, who also gave him credit for helping to create GPT-4o, saying that the Pune boy's “vision, talent, conviction, and determination” were essential to its success. The core of the flagship product, ChatGPT-4, has been changed to become GPT-4o.
Prafulla Dhariwal discussed the debut on X (formerly Twitter), writing, "The first model to emerge from the omni team is OpenAI's first natively completely multimodal model, which is called GPT-4o (o for "omni"). Although the entire organization put a lot of work into this launch, I want to personally thank a handful of my amazing team members for helping to make this amazing model a reality.
"GPT-4o would not have happened without the vision, talent, conviction, and determination of @prafdhar over a long period of time," Sam Altman wrote in response to Prafulla Dhariwal's article. that, together with the efforts of numerous others, produced what, hopefully, will be a revolution in computer usage.
In addition to winning the gold medal at the International Astronomy Olympiad in China in 2009, Prafulla Dhariwal was awarded the National Talent Search Scholarship by the Government of India. He was the recipient of the annual Abasaheb Naravane memorial prize in 2013 in addition to winning gold medals in the International Mathematical Olympiad and the International Physics Olympiad in 2012 and 2013.
"In class XII I studied throughout the year and my special focus was on JEE preparations as I wanted to study in IIT," he said at the time to the Mid-Day newspaper. However, I am now overjoyed to have been accepted to MIT as well." After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Mathematics), he began working as a research intern at OpenAI in May 2016. He is credited with co-creating GPT-3, Jukebox, DALL-E 2, and Glow.
