[6][7][8] Brockman was born in Thompson, North Dakota, and attended Red River High School, where he excelled in mathematics, chemistry, and computer science.

[6][9] He won a silver medal in the 2006 International Chemistry Olympiad[10] and became the first finalist from North Dakota to participate in the Intel science talent search since 1973.

[8][14] Brockman left Stripe in May 2015, and co-founded OpenAI[15] in December 2015 with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever.

[17][18] On February 14, 2019, OpenAI announced that they had developed a new large language model called GPT-2,[19] but kept it private due to their concern for its potential misuse.

[6] On March 14, 2023, in a live video demo, Brockman unveiled GPT-4, the fourth iteration in the GPT series, and the newest language model created by OpenAI.