Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI, stated in November 2025 that the era of easy gains from scaling is over, and the industry is now in an age of research.

Ilia Sutskyver is the co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI.

Ilia Sutskever never returned to OpenAI after Sam Altman's reinstallation, and Mira Murati left shortly thereafter.