# Luke Metz

> Luke Metz is an AI researcher whose work spans early generative-image research, learned optimizers, ChatGPT and GPT-4o. He co-founded Thinking Machines Lab after working at Google Brain and OpenAI; in 2026 he returned to OpenAI and then joined Meta Superintelligence Labs. Away from frontier labs, his public project log includes a cardboard quadcopter and a homemade robotic arm designed to make matcha.

- **Role:** AI researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs
- **Organizations:** Meta Superintelligence Labs, Thinking Machines Lab, OpenAI, Google Brain, Indico Data Solutions
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in engineering, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
- **Known for:** Co-authored the DCGAN paper, recognized with an ICLR 2026 Test of Time award., Contributed to the initial team behind ChatGPT., Credited as a GPT-4o post-training lead in OpenAI's system card.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Posted a cardboard quadcopter project made with fellow students and an onboard Raspberry Pi.
- **2015-2016** — Worked at Indico Data Solutions and co-authored the DCGAN paper with Alec Radford and Soumith Chintala.
- **2016-2022** — Worked at Google Brain, researching learned optimizers and related machine-learning methods.
- **2018** — Documented his attempt to build a matcha-making robotic arm and control it with learned dynamics.
- **2022-2024** — Worked at OpenAI, including the initial ChatGPT team; later credited as a GPT-4o post-training lead.
- **2025** — Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati and other AI researchers; the company publicly launched in 2025.
- **2026-01** — Left Thinking Machines Lab and returned to OpenAI.
- **2026-04** — The DCGAN paper received an ICLR Test of Time award.
- **2026-08** — Joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, according to Axios.

## Achievements

- Co-authored the DCGAN paper, recognized with an ICLR 2026 Test of Time award.
- Contributed to the initial team behind ChatGPT.
- Credited as a GPT-4o post-training lead in OpenAI's system card.
- Credited as infrastructure lead and ChatML format lead in GPT-4 technical-report attribution.
- Co-authored research on learned optimizers, including VeLO and work on optimizers training other optimizers.
- Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Axios reported that Metz joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, reporting to Alexandr Wang.
- **2026-04** — ICLR awarded the DCGAN paper he co-authored its 2026 Test of Time award.
- **2026-01** — Metz left Thinking Machines Lab and rejoined OpenAI.

## Links

- Website: https://lukemetz.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-metz-5003046a
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Luke_Metz
- GitHub: https://github.com/lukemetz

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Last updated: 2026-09-29