Jakub Pachocki is OpenAI’s new chief scientist, taking over from Ilya Sutskever who has left the company he co-founded after several months of controversies. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described Pachocki as “easily one of the greatest minds of our generation.” But who is Pachocki, the man in charge of research at the world’s largest AI startup? Cut From The Same Cloth As IlyaPachocki has been the Research Director at the Microsoft Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:MSFT) OpenAI since 2017 and Altman says he has “run many of our most important projects.” Although Sutskever has maintained silence since his failed …