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Alex Yu

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Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Yu develops image and 3D generation systems that turn sparse visual inputs into controllable scenes. He co-founded Luma AI and helped create neural rendering methods for fast scene reconstruction; at OpenAI he now works on image generation, bringing geometry-aware research into frontier creative models.

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Member of Technical Staff
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '266,8356,1485,461Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
6,835citations as of Jun 15, '26+1,374 since Aug 25, '25
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