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 release DRI for the Inkling and Inkling-Small models and led post-training model integration. I currently lead the Code & Autoresearch team within Post-training. If you are interested, consider applying to the team.

Previously, I was at xAI on the RL scaling team, and before that on the post-training team. Earlier, 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.