Research

Work from our team — including research published while building frontier AI at the world’s top labs.

February 2026 · OpenAI

Why we no longer evaluate SWE-bench Verified

Samuel Miserendino, Ryan Kaufman, Olivia Watkins

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September 2025 · OpenAI

GDPval: Evaluating AI on real-world economically valuable tasks

Tejal Patwardhan, Rachel Dias, Elizabeth Proehl, Grace Kim, Michele Wang, Olivia Watkins, Simón Posada Fishman, Marwan Aljubeh, Phoebe Thacker, Laurance Fauconnet, Natalie S. Kim, Patrick Chao, Samuel Miserendino, Gildas Chabot, David Li, Michael Sharman, Alexandra Barr, Amelia Glaese, Jerry Tworek

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June 2025 · OpenAI

Persona Features Control Emergent Misalignment

Miles Wang, Tom Dupré la Tour, Olivia Watkins, Alex Makelov, Ryan A. Chi, Samuel Miserendino, Jeffrey Wang, Achyuta Rajaram, Johannes Heidecke, Tejal Patwardhan, Dan Mossing

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February 2025 · OpenAI

SWE-Lancer: Can frontier LLMs earn $1M from real-world freelance software engineering?

Samuel Miserendino, Michele Wang, Tejal Patwardhan, Johannes Heidecke

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