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A chart circulating on X breaks down where OpenAI employees went to school. It reads like a who's who of elite universities.
Stanford leads by a wide margin, followed by UC Berkeley, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon, with strong showings from Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, and a few international institutions.
The data comes from workforce.ai, which tracks and verifies online professional profiles to analyze hiring and talent trends.
While not a full picture of OpenAI's workforce, the snapshot underscores how heavily frontier AI labs continue to draw from a small cluster of top research universities — and how concentrated elite AI talent remains.
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