Fact · Speech recognition
6authors
The 2022 paper that introduced Whisper lists six authors, among them Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Tao Xu , Greg Brockman , Christine McLeavey , Ilya Sutskever”
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision, Alec Radford et al., arXiv (eess.AS), 2022, Author list on the arXiv abstract page.
Open the original- What it measures
- The paper is titled Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision and was submitted to arXiv on 6 December 2022. Authorship of a research paper does not make a person the owner of the product.
- What it does not show
- The author list shows who wrote the paper, not who owns Whisper or controls its development today.