2015: people
Selekoa’s 16 people records dated 2015, in date order, of 70 in all topics.
Selective: what the records hold, not a history of the year.
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People 16 records
Dated to 2015 only
· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement names Durk Kingma among its founding members. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement names John Schulman among its founding members. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the year
Andrej Karpathy’s biography places an internship at DeepMind in 2015. Evidence ↗· interval begins · dated to the year
Andrej Karpathy’s career timeline places his OpenAI research-scientist and founding-member work in 2015–2017. Evidence ↗· interval begins · dated to the year
Durk Kingma’s biography dates his OpenAI Research Scientist role to 2015–2018. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the year
Alibaba’s news site Alizila stated on 23 January 2025 that Jingren Zhou joined Alibaba Group in 2015. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement of 11 December 2015 names Andrej Karpathy among the group’s founding members. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement of 11 December 2015 names Pamela Vagata among the group’s founding members. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement of 11 December 2015 names Trevor Blackwell among the group’s founding members. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement of 11 December 2015 names Vicki Cheung among the group’s founding members. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
OpenAI’s launch announcement names Wojciech Zaremba among its founding members. Evidence ↗
February 2015
December 2015
· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s launch announcement names Sam Altman as a co-chair. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s launch announcement identifies Greg Brockman as CTO. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s launch announcement names Elon Musk as a co-chair. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI’s launch announcement names Ilya Sutskever as research director. Evidence ↗