Hi, I'm Spencer

📍sf | prev. nyc


Hey! ✌️

I’m Spencer Papay, and I'm on the human data team at OpenAI.Previously, I was a product manager at Scale, where I revamped the platform and quality systems that subject-matter experts use to create training data for large language models.In another life, I was an investor at Citadel, covering semiconductors and hardware. These days, I make more angel investments - please reach out if you're working on something in the AI stack or otherwise exciting!I love just about anything that gets me outside - skiing, backpacking, and rock climbing - and I’m always looking for my next favorite restaurant in San Francisco.

Some Things I've Worked On

ChatGPT Search
Contributor, 2024
SimpleQA Eval
Author, 2024
OpenAI o1
Contributor to Reasoning research, 2024
GPT-4o
Core contributor to Language and Multimodal capabilities, 2024
Meet Claude: Anthropic's Rival to ChatGPT
Co-authored with Riley Goodside, 2023
Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
Joel Greenblatt, 2020
Lead research assistant
Regional Approaches to Combating the United States' Opioid Epidemic
Stanford Economics Journal, 2019
Author
Pupil Absenteeism, Measurement, and Menstruation: Evidence from Western Kenya
Columbia Center for Development Economics and Policy, 2019
Research assistant
Audit on DSNY Use of E-ZPass and Compliance with Vehicle Recall
Office of the NYC Comptroller, 2017
Author and auditor
& lots more that aren't sharable

Contact

Please get in touch if you want to collaborate or discuss your startup!

or if you have any delicious sf/nyc restaurant recommendations