🔥 How a 23-year-old self-taught researcher ended up at OpenAI

A story that quietly questions the role of universities in the age of AI tutors.

Meet Gabriel Pettersson, 23 years old, from a remote town in Sweden. No university degree. No formal CS education. Today: researcher at OpenAI, working on Sora.

The bigger shift: The monopoly of universities on deep technical knowledge is cracking.

Traditional education follows a bottom-up path: linear algebra → calculus → statistics → ML → maybe real work someday.

The problem? Motivation dies long before relevance appears.

At the same time, compa