Unveiling the Team Behind o3-mini: 3 Core Chinese Members, Alumni from Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University Included

The O3-mini, which has stronger performance and a lower price than the O1-mini, has sparked heated discussions in the AI circle. Its performance is comparable to that of GPT-4o, and the price is only half that of the O1-mini, indicating that OpenAI can improve performance while reducing costs. Among the team behind O3-mini, Chinese people are in the spotlight. Three Chinese individuals, Ren Hongyu, Zhao Shengjia, and Kevin Lu, almost form a fixed trio. They were responsible for GPT-4o mini/O1-mini. Ren Hongyu is an alumnus of Peking University and joined OpenAI last year. He has demonstrated the programming ability of O3-mini. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a core developer of GPT-4o. Zhao Shengjia is a research scientist at OpenAI and is responsible for the training and alignment of ChatGPT. She graduated with a Ph.D. from Stanford University and graduated from Tsinghua University for her undergraduate degree. Kevin Lu joined OpenAI in July this year and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2021. In addition, the O3-mini team also includes Max Schwarzer, Eric Anthony Mitchell, Brian (Qiang) Zhang, and Ted Sanders. O3-mini supports three levels of thinking settings. In terms of coding ability, the low setting is similar to that of O1-mini, and the medium and high settings exceed the official version of O1. Currently, O3-mini only provides limited test applications and is expected to be launched at the end of January next year. Team member Zhao Shengjia posted a recruitment message, inviting people to discuss the grand plan of pre-training cutting-edge models/models with both cost and performance.