


Irwan Bello
Researcher · Founder
Now Starting a new company at the intersection of AI, research, compute and science · Unnamed new company
@IrwanBelloirwanbello.github.io ↗AI researcher and seed investor in San Francisco, starting a new company in 2026 on AI, research, compute and science. Earlier: post-training lead on Reflection AI's founding team, early ChatGPT and GPT-4 at OpenAI, and Google Brain from 2016 to 2022.
Path
Current
- UNUnnamed new companyStarting a new company at the intersection of AI, research, compute and science2026 – present
Previous
Reflection AIFounding team, post-training lead2024 – 2026- OpenAIEarly ChatGPT team (post-training, inference, GPT-4)2023 – 2024
- CHCharacter.aiFounding team2022 – 2023
Google BrainResearch Scientist2016 – 2022
Sourcesirwanbello.github.iox.comEducation and jobs are read from their own homepage or employer's page; papers checked on arXiv. From LinkedIn only the person's own public posts are read; GitHub is a link only.
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