Suchir Balaji was a researcher at OpenAI who later accused his employer of violating copyright law. One of his OpenAI colleagues told BI that he was one of the "true geniuses" at the startup. "He was one of the true geniuses at OpenAI," Gogineni said. Gogineni recalled how Balaji worked with key figures at OpenAI, including cofounders Ilya Sutskever and John Schulman, to help launch WebGPT. In the nearly two years he overlapped with Balaji at OpenAI, Gogineni said he never recalled his coworker bringing up concerns about copyright violation.

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