Author: New Wisdom

OpenAI shocked the world with Sora.

What kind of genius team could develop such a masterpiece?

Upon closer inspection, the author team of OpenAI consists of only 13 people, led by a recent Ph.D. graduate, with post-00s participants, including 3 Chinese members, one of whom is a Peking University alumnus.

Tim Brooks

Tim Brooks co-led the Sora project at OpenAI, focusing on developing large-scale generative models that can simulate the real world.

This young man obtained his Ph.D. from the Berkeley AI Research Lab, under the guidance of Alyosha Efros. During his Ph.D., he proposed a technology called InstructPix2Pix.

Before joining OpenAI, he participated in the development of AI technology for the Pixel phone camera at Google and researched video generation models at NVIDIA.

He is also a principal researcher for DALL·E 3.

Another part of his resume is quite remarkable—

His photography has won major awards from "National Geographic," "Nature's Best Photography," and the "National Wildlife Federation."

His animal photography:

He has also performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and won awards at international a cappella competitions.

Netizens expressed envy for his freedom.

Finally, Tim Brooks rather "Versailles-ly" expressed in his resume: "I am passionate about AI, and fortunately, this passion perfectly integrates with my love for photography, film, and music."

It seems that actors who do not like photography cannot become scientists at OpenAI.

Bill Peebles

Another scientist co-leading the Sora project, Bill Peebles, focuses on the development of video generation and world simulation technology.

Similar to Tim Brooks, he also obtained his Ph.D. from the Berkeley AI Research Lab under Alyosha Efros.

He completed his undergraduate studies at MIT, under the guidance of Antonio Torralba.

He also interned at FAIR, Adobe Research, and NVIDIA.

During his internship at FAIR, he co-authored a paper titled "Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers" with the current NYU Chinese professor, Saisning Xie, proposing the basic architecture of Sora.

After graduating from Berkeley, he joined OpenAI and led the team at OpenAI to work almost sleeplessly for over a year before Sora was unveiled.

Connor Holmes

After interning at Microsoft for several years, Connor Holmes became a full-time employee at Microsoft and then switched to OpenAI at the end of last year, where he encountered major events like Sora.

He has been dedicated to solving system efficiency issues encountered in reasoning and training deep learning tasks.

He has rich experience in areas such as LLM, BERT-style encoders, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and UNets.

Similarly, he also listed his hobby on LinkedIn—swimming, and has worked part-time for a swimming rescue team.

He has been studying at the Colorado School of Mines from undergraduate to graduate school.

Although the school's ranking is not high, he still became a researcher at OpenAI based on his outstanding abilities and participated in projects such as Sora and DALL·E 3.

Will DePue

One cannot help but marvel that perhaps only in a place like OpenAI can a post-00s researcher take on such a crucial role and play a key role in such an important project.

Looking at his resume, it is already quite astonishing that he could join OpenAI as a researcher right after graduating from undergraduate.

But seeing that he had already started his own company in high school, one can only marvel at the fact that talent knows no age.

About half a year ago, he shared on a YouTube show how he achieved so many remarkable accomplishments at such a young age.

Yufei Guo

This Chinese researcher is very mysterious. Although he did not leave a resume, he has made a name for himself in the two recent major projects at OpenAI.

GPT-4 Technical Report:

DALL·E 3 Technical Report:

Li Jing

Li Jing graduated from Peking University with a bachelor's degree and then obtained a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.

He is currently conducting research at OpenAI in the fields of multimodal learning and generative models, and has been involved in the development of DALL·E 3.

DALL·E 3 Technical Report

Before this, he conducted postdoctoral research at FAIR in collaboration with Yann LeCun.

David Schnurr

This veteran in the AI field joined Graphiq, later acquired by Amazon, in 2012, where he led the team in creating the prototype for the current Alexa.

He switched to Uber in 2016 and joined OpenAI three years later, where he continues to work.

He is also one of the few in the team who joined OpenAI with only an undergraduate degree.

Joe Taylor

Joe Taylor's previous work experience includes Stripe, Periscope.tv/Twitter, Square, and his own design studio, Joe Taylor Designer.

From 2004 to 2010, he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in New Media/Computer Arts at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

From his education and work background, he seems more like an artist than an engineer.

He has strong professional skills in various areas, including user interface design, web design, and art direction.

Before joining the Sora team, he worked with the ChatGPT team.

Eric Luhman

Eric Luhman is a passionate AI research enthusiast, focusing on developing efficient and cutting-edge AI algorithms.

His research interests mainly lie in generative modeling and computer vision, especially in diffusion models.

Many of his papers are related to diffusion models and other visual models.

Troy Luhman

As for this researcher with a name similar to Eric Luhman, there is almost no information about him online. Only under his real name's X account, there is a retweet related to the resignation controversy with Sam Altman at that time.

Clarence Wing Yin NG

This author is even more mysterious, with almost no relevant information found online.

There is only a suspected patent record related to his previous work at Amazon in the U.S. patent information.

Ricky Wang

This Chinese engineer, who worked at Meta for many years, graduated from UC Berkeley.

He joined OpenAI in January of this year.

Graduated from UC Berkeley:

Aditya Ramesht

He is a veteran at OpenAI, having previously led DALL·E 2 and DALL·E 3.

Despite having only an undergraduate degree, he led DALL·E 3 and now leads the Sora team.

Aditya completed his undergraduate studies at New York University and participated in some projects at the LeCun lab. He was hired directly by OpenAI after graduation.

With a team led by young people focused on output rather than background, OpenAI once again shocked the world at the beginning of 2014!

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