Claim: OpenAI announced on 26 April 2016 that Pieter Abbeel was taking…

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Pieter Abbeelheld role at ↓

OpenAI announced on 26 April 2016 that Pieter Abbeel was taking leave from UC Berkeley to work with OpenAI full-time.

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2016-04-26 · snapshot
Role: Full-time work with OpenAI on leave from UC Berkeley (title not stated)

Scope and limitsThe announcement gives no title, start date or end date.

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Welcome, Pieter and Shivon!

OpenAI · 2016-04-26

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The announcement says Abbeel, who had advised OpenAI before its launch, is taking leave from Berkeley to work with OpenAI full-time.

Location in source Paragraph beginning “Pieter Abbeel.”

How it was read Read through a reader relay (r.jina.ai): a third-party rendering of the publisher’s current page, not an archive copy

Machine-checked · 2026-10-15

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Authors: OpenAI
Version: Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 70b798004110b9a0da3c586a8051a2b1418cc62cebacfd87524eccd51229b5c2) through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy.
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Accessed: 2026-10-15
Language: English (en)
Attribution: OpenAI, “Welcome, Pieter and Shivon!”, 2016-04-26.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “taking a leave from Berkeley” matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read through the third-party reader relay r.jina.ai, which renders the publisher’s current page (the publisher refused direct retrieval); not an archive copy. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. No human editorial review.

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