1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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Boris Power, OpenAI's head of applied research, takes a dual role as head of research for Thrive Holdings
AI Judge changed title after evaluation, original title: "OpenAI's Boris Power joins Thrive Holdings as head of research while keeping his current role"
Story Overview
Boris Power is layering a new leadership title at Thrive Holdings onto his existing OpenAI post, extending his applied research work into a vehicle that buys traditional services businesses and rewires them with AI alongside human practitioners rather than replacing them.
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Industry Shift
Thrive's wager on rising human value
The move lines up with Thrive's stated bet that AI will make skilled labor more productive in sectors like accounting and IT services, drawing on earlier experiments such as Codex-built tax tools.
Open Question
Unclear next steps for the dual role
No timeline, compensation details, or specific research priorities for the Thrive position have surfaced yet, leaving the exact scope of the added responsibilities open.
Sentiment
Positive users congratulated Boris Power on his new Head of Research role at Thrive Holdings after OpenAI, while negative users sarcastically questioned his ability to handle two top jobs or implied the position is really sales.
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
2/ Thrive Holdings owns and operates services businesses core to the real economy.
The team works with the practitioners closest to the work to rebuild these businesses around AI, from the inside out.
Boris Power@BorisMPower
1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
9/ Excited for what we build next.
Thrive Holding’s Long Humans post goes deeper on the thesis behind the company:
http://www.thriveholdings.com/long-humans
Boris Power@BorisMPower
8/ My role is to help with that loop: technical direction, real-world measurement, and turning what we learn in deployment into faster product and model improvements.
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alth0u🧶@alth0u
applied researcher, apply thyself
Boris Power@BorisMPower
1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
8/ My role is to help with that loop: technical direction, real-world measurement, and turning what we learn in deployment into faster product and model improvements.
Boris Power@BorisMPower
7/ OpenAI’s equity stake in Holdings also makes the alignment unusually strong.
Deployment informs product. Product informs research. Research improves models. The loop gets tighter the deeper the work gets.
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
6/ OpenAI and Thrive Holdings are already working closely together.
One example: the tax agents we recently built with Codex.
http://openai.com/index/building-self-improving-tax-agents-with-codex
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Martin Shkreli@MartinShkreli
@BorisMPower Congrats!
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kache@yacineMTB
@alth0u Me at the applied research job: wait it's account management and sales? (This is based btw)
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John Hallman@johnohallman
@BorisMPower Super exciting news!! Best of luck Boris 🫡
Boris Power@BorisMPower
1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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gabriel@gabriel1
@BorisMPower well deserved!
Boris Power@BorisMPower
1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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Theodor Marcu@theodormarcu
@BorisMPower congrats @BorisMPower!
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
3/ I think this is where a lot of the next AI progress will become real.
Not in abstract demos, but in messy workflows where the whole company is willing to change around the technology.
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Nikita Mounier@nikitamounier
@BorisMPower Welcome!!
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prinz@deredleritt3r
@BorisMPower Congrats!
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Adam.GPT@TheRealAdamG
@BorisMPower Amazing for all involved @BorisMPower!
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
@ryanbrewer 🚀 🚀
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Patrick Hsu@pdhsu
@BorisMPower @adibvafa ⚡️⚡️⚡️ woohoo
Boris Power@BorisMPower
1/ I’m excited to share that I’ll be taking on an additional role as Head of Research for Thrive Holdings, alongside my work at OpenAI.
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Vignav Ramesh@rvignav
@BorisMPower super exciting - congrats boris!
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
4/ As models get better, more of the hard part moves into the last mile.
What should be built? How do you know if it’s working? How do you keep changing course as the technology improves?
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
@RajaPatnaik Thanks Raja - I’m very excited about what we build together!
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Boris Power@BorisMPower
5/ You can’t answer that from the outside.
You need real companies, real workflows, real users, and real constraints.
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