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Li Jing

LJ

Head of Pretraining at AMI Labs

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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Background

Current role
Head of Pretraining Jan 2026-present
Previously
Oct 2022-Jan 2026Researcher,
Feb 2020-Sep 2022Postdoctoral Researcher,
Co-founder,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 15, 2026

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