Zuckerberg poached Alexander Kolesnikov from Sam Altman's OpenAI: Where did this AI genius study?

Alexander Kolesnikov’s rise in the AI world began with a master’s in mathematics from Moscow and a PhD in machine learning from Austria. From Yandex to Google, DeepMind, and OpenAI, he steadily built a research career defined by depth over hype. Now at Meta, Kolesnikov remains a quiet force shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

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