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OpenAI’s launch announcement names John Schulman among its founding members. Copy claim link
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Date 2015 · event Scope and limits The predicate means participation in founding; the source wording is founding member, not a statement of legal founder status.
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Introducing OpenAI ↗ OpenAI · 2015-12-11
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Paraphrase John Schulman appears in the list of founding research engineers and scientists.
Location in source OpenAI section, list of other founding members
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Source details and check notes Authors Greg Brockman; Ilya Sutskever; OpenAI Version Dated page, inspected at retrieval Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-09-17 Language English (en) Attribution OpenAI, Introducing OpenAI (2015-12-11). Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and minimal attributed excerpts only. Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Source passage independently inspected by an automated research assistant for this scoped record. Human source review pending. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. Participation in founding an organisation or research team. Neither sole founding nor legal incorporation is implied.
Date. Founding participation documented by the December 2015 launch announcement; year precision does not assert an incorporation date.
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