Suchir Balaji, 26, had in recent months become a whistleblower against OpenAI, speaking publicly about the company's practices and questioning whether or not they were legal.

Parents of Suchir Balaji, Poornima Ramarao, left, and Balaji Ramamurthy, right, hold a photograph of their son from 2022, in their home in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower, died in San Francisco on November 26 in a suspected suicide, according to local authorities.

Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer from the Bay Area, and a whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT, was found deceased in his San Francisco apartment.

Suchir Balaji, an Indian-American former employee of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, who accused the company of breaking the copyright law, was recently found dead at his apartment in San Francisco ...

Parents of Suchir Balaji, Poornima Ramarao, left, and Balaji Ramamurthy, right, hold a photograph of their son from 2022, in their home in Alameda County, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024.

Suchir Balaji, 26, a former OpenAI engineer who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law was found dead ...

Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects, he helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data the company used ...

Notably, just a day before he died, a court filing reportedly named Balaji, 26, in a copyright lawsuit brought against the startup. As part of a good faith compromise, OpenAI reportedly said it ...

Who was Suchir Balaji? Balaji studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, before working at OpenAI. He interned at OpenAI and Scale AI while in college.

Suchir Balaji, a 26-year-old former OpenAI researcher who backed claims of copyright infringement by the technology, was found dead on Nov. 26 in his San Francisco apartment by police making a ...