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Yilin Yang

Yilin Yang portrait

Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab

Yang builds speech systems that translate conversation while it is happening. At OpenAI, Yang led GPT-Realtime-Translate; earlier work at Meta helped Llama 4 converse by voice and enabled the Seamless models to translate speech across many languages.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff Jul 2026-present
Previously
Oct 2025-Jun 2026Member of Technical Staff,
Jul 2022-Oct 2025Researcher,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

News 1

moveYilin Yang joins Thinking Machines Lab from OpenAI

Yang announced on X that they have joined Thinking Machines Lab to help build its next generation of voice models after working on speech post-training at OpenAI.

July 9, 2026

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