Daisuke Okanohara (born 1982) is a Japanese artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur. He earned a PhD in information science and technology from the University of Tokyo. While still a graduate student, he co-founded Preferred Infrastructure in 2006 and later co-founded Preferred Networks in 2014, leading research and commercialization in generative AI, deep learning, natural language processing, and materials discovery. He became president and CEO of Preferred Networks in 2025. His principal work, “Daikibo Gengo Moderu wa Aratana Chino ka: ChatGPT ga Kaeta Sekai” (“Are Large Language Models a New Form of Intelligence? The World Changed by ChatGPT”), explains how language models generate text, the abilities they acquire through training, their limitations, and their potential effects on society.
