Rhythm Garg
Co-founder of Applied Compute and former OpenAI researcher (company text gives “Rhythm”; full name from reporting).
Description from Selekoa’s record. Sources: It's time to get specific · TechCrunch list of startups founded by former OpenAI staff (entry “Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, and Yash Patil — Applied Compute”)
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- Date unknownUndatedCo-founded Applied ComputeApplied Compute’s post of 29 October 2025 names “Rhythm” among its founders, and the company’s LinkedIn post of June 2026 calls him “Our co-founder Rhythm Garg”.LinkedIn post: “Your data is your edge …”: published 2026-06-02 · It's time to get specific: published 2025-10-29 · TechCrunch list of startups founded by former OpenAI staff (entry “Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, and Yash Patil — Applied Compute”): publication date unknown · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗
- Date unknownUndatedHeld role at OpenAI · Researcher (Applied Compute’s post calls him a core contributor to OpenAI’s first RL-trained reasoning model, o1)Applied Compute’s post of 29 October 2025 states that its founder Rhythm (Rhythm Garg) was a researcher at OpenAI, as a core contributor to the first RL-trained reasoning model (o1).It's time to get specific: published 2025-10-29 · TechCrunch list of startups founded by former OpenAI staff (entry “Rhythm Garg, Linden Li, and Yash Patil — Applied Compute”): publication date unknown · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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Records: Rhythm Garg → co-founded → Applied Compute · Rhythm Garg → held role at → OpenAI
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Records: Rhythm Garg → co-founded → Applied Compute · Rhythm Garg → held role at → OpenAI
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Records: Rhythm Garg → co-founded → Applied Compute · Rhythm Garg → held role at → OpenAI
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