2020: people
Selekoa’s 5 people records dated 2020, in date order, of 25 in all topics.
Selective: what the records hold, not a history of the year.
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People 5 records
January 2020
· snapshot · dated to the day
The first version of Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models lists Jared Kaplan with an OpenAI affiliation. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The first version of Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models lists Sam McCandlish with an OpenAI affiliation. Evidence ↗
December 2020
· interval ends · dated to the month
Zhipu’s Hong Kong prospectus of 30 December 2025 states that Zhang Peng worked at Tsinghua University from August 2005 to December 2020. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the day
OpenAI announced that Dario Amodei was leaving the company. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
OpenAI identified Dario Amodei as VP of Research in its December 2020 departure announcement. Evidence ↗