Jim Fan

NVIDIA Director of AI. Co-leads Project GR00T. OpenAI's first intern. Stanford PhD.

United States

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About

Jim Fan is a senior research scientist and Director of AI at NVIDIA, where he co-leads Project GR00T, building foundation models for humanoid robots. Before NVIDIA, he was OpenAI's first research intern, giving him a front-row seat to the earliest days of modern AI development. His research on MineDojo won the NeurIPS Outstanding Paper Award, and he's one of the most followed AI researchers on X with nearly 350K followers. Jim regularly shares insights on embodied AI, generalist agents, and the future of robotics that are both deeply technical and accessible.