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An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied
An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied. The news comes as the U.S. views foreign workers with increased scrutiny.
H1-B visas, favored by the tech industry, allow U.S. companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in “specialty occupations” that require at least a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent. Ashish Vaswani, who moved to the U.S. to study computer science in the early 2000s, is one of the co-creators of the transformer, the seminal AI model architecture that underpins chatbots like ChatGPT. The U.S.’s immigration policies, cutbacks in grant funding, and hostility to certain sciences have many researchers contemplating moving out of the country.
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