
Researcher · Founder · Engineer
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Li led OpenAI research on video perception and contributed to DALL-E 3, Sora 1, GPT-4o, Thinking with Images, 4o Image Generation, and GPT-5. He earned an MIT physics PhD, co-founded Lightelligence, and has been recognized by MIT TR35, Forbes 30 Under 30, and an IPhO gold medal.
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