Co-founders · Labs co-lead

Ben Mann

One of the architects of GPT-3 at OpenAI. His own site calls him a software engineer, tinkerer and aspiring mad scientist.

Career

Anthropic
- Member of Technical StaffFeb 2021 – present
OpenAI
- Member of Technical StaffJul 2019 – Dec 2020
U
Unnamed startup
- FounderJun 2018 – May 2019
Google
- Senior Software EngineerNov 2017 – Jun 2018
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Software EngineerJul 2017 – Oct 2017
OpenAI
- Software EngineerMar 2017 – May 2017

Show 3 earlier employers

Google
- Senior Software EngineerJul 2013 – Sep 2016
- Software EngineerSep 2011 – Jul 2013
- Software EngineerMay 2010 – Aug 2010
Columbia University, Robotics Group
- Research AssociateSep 2008 – Jan 2009
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Research AssistantJun 2006 – Dec 2006

Graduated magna cum laude from Columbia in 2011.
Built Webtendo, which turned a laptop into a game console and phones into controllers, and chased latency under 30 milliseconds.
Was one of three co-first authors of the 2020 GPT-3 paper, listed second after Tom Brown.
Worked on infrastructure, efficiency and safety for GPT-3 while at OpenAI.
Created Anthropic's Labs team in 2024 to explore new product ideas; it went on to build Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol.
Describes himself as Anthropic's "engineer of last resort."
Puts his 50th percentile estimate for reaching some kind of superintelligence at around 2028.