Portrait of Tianle Li

Tianle Li

I’m Tianle, a Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab.

Thinking Machines Current
San Francisco Based

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Selected work

Past contributions

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About

A short history

At Thinking Machines Lab, I was the model release DRI for Inkling and Inkling-Small, and ran post-training model integration.

Previously, I worked on the Grok 4 family at xAI. Before that, I studied EECS at UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Ion Stoica and helped build LMArena.

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Writing

Notes from the field

Research guide

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Undergrad Research

What I wish I had read before starting research—from finding mentors to navigating PhD applications.

Elsewhere

Find me online.