OpenAI CTO Greg Brockman and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever spoke at VentureBeat's Transform 2019 conference about recent learnings. : OpenAI conducts an enormous amount of research in AI subfields from computer vision to natural language processing (NLP). The San Francisco-based firm — which was cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman, chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, and others with a $1 billion in backing from luminaries like LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman and Y Combinator chairman Sam Altman — last year detailed an AI robotics system capable of human-like dexterity.