Jared Kaplan

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Jared Kaplan holds a rare distinction as both a theoretical physicist and AI pioneer who reshaped an entire industry. His scaling laws paper, cited over 10,000 times, is one of the most influential AI publications of the decade. He co-founded Anthropic, which by 2026 became one of the world's most valuable AI companies, and his work on Constitutional AI set a new standard for model alignment. Kaplan's Hertz Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, and NSF CAREER Award reflect his sustained excellence across two demanding fields.

AwardsKaplan has won several prestigious academic awards. He received a Hertz Fellowship in 2005 for his graduate studies in physics, a Sloan Research Fellowship in the 2010s for early-career research, and an NSF CAREER Award in 2015 for his work on AdS/CFT and quantum gravity.

Honours & Distinctions

Hertz Fellow

Hertz Foundation·2005

Awarded for graduate studies in physics.

NSF CAREER Award

National Science Foundation·2015

Award PHY-1454083 for research in AdS/CFT and quantum gravity.

Sloan Research Fellow

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation·2010s

Early-career research fellowship in physics.

Records & Feats

Co-authored the foundational scaling laws paper for neural language models

Career Milestone·2020

Kaplan's 2020 paper 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models' demonstrated predictable performance gains with compute, data, and model size, becoming a cornerstone of modern AI development.

Co-authored GPT-3, one of the largest language models at launch

Career Milestone·2020

GPT-3's 175 billion parameters made it the largest language model when released, and it became a commercial breakthrough powering products like ChatGPT.