Jerry Tworek is an AI researcher who co-founded Core Automation, an AI lab building systems that optimize and automate work, after leaving OpenAI in January 2026 following nearly seven years there. Jerry Tworek's Twitter Score is 109 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #6,367 (top 5%) among 486,860 tracked accounts.
Jerry Tworek previously served as Vice President of Research at OpenAI, where he contributed to some of the lab's most consequential projects. He co-authored the 2021 paper introducing Codex, which evaluated the model's code-generation capabilities, and is listed among the contributors to the GPT-4 Technical Report. He also co-authored research evaluating OpenAI o1 and an early o3 checkpoint on competitive programming tasks, and contributed to work demonstrating reinforcement-learning-trained robotic manipulation using a physical robot hand. Upon departing, he cited a desire to pursue research directions that were difficult to explore within OpenAI.
Jerry Tworek co-founded Core Automation, which describes itself as beginning its automation work with research itself. Jerry Tworek has 42,324 followers as of September 2026 and has published 2,035 posts. He has been mentioned by 29 accounts a total of 46 times.
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