John SchulmanCo-founder and Chief Scientist · Thinking Machines LabResearcher↗
Researcher · Engineer
Thinking Machines LabMember of Technical Staff; Lead, Auto Research
Thinking Machines LabMar 2026-present
SpaceXAIMay 2025-Mar 2026
UC Berkeley2023-2025Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Presented Chatbot Arena, comparing language models through people's votes on anonymous answers.
Credits Li as a co-author and describes how users vote on responses from anonymous models.
Li documents his training contributions to several Grok releases and his current post-training work at Thinking Machines Lab.
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