OpenAI Chinese Vice President Weng Li will officially resign on November 15, and this news has attracted widespread attention in the field of artificial intelligence. During his tenure at OpenAI, Weng Li made important contributions to the company's development, especially in the field of AI security. The team she led has exceeded 80 people and has participated in several important projects including GPT-4. The formula "Agent = big model + memory + active planning + tool use" is even more profound for AI research significance. Her resignation marks a new leader in the key position of OpenAI security director and also opens a new chapter in her personal career.
Recently, OpenAI's Chinese Vice President Weng Li announced that she will officially resign on November 15. Weng Li graduated from Peking University and was the head of the OpenAI security system team and one of the important contributors to ChatGPT.
She joined OpenAI in 2018 and participated in several important projects including GPT-4, especially in model security, pre-training and reinforcement learning.
During her career, Weng Li proposed the famous formula "Agent = big model + memory + active planning + tool use", which provided important theoretical support for the research and application of AI. Weng Lizeng delivered a keynote speech on "AI Safety and Cultivation" at the 2024B Super Science Evening, which received widespread attention and discussion.
In her resignation letter, Weng Li expressed her gratitude to OpenAI and reviewed her growth process in the company. She mentioned that when she first joined OpenAI, she was full of curiosity and enthusiasm, participated in multiple projects from deep reinforcement learning algorithms to robot challenges, and successfully taught the robot to unlock the Rubik's Cube with the joint efforts of the team. She also said that when exploring the application of AI models to the real world, she established the first application research team, laying the foundation for subsequent security work.
Under her leadership, OpenAI's security systems team has grown and now has more than 80 outstanding scientists and engineers. Weng Li is proud of the team's achievements in AI security, especially the latest released O1 preview model, which demonstrates excellent security and practicality. Her strict requirements for the team in terms of safety testing and red team testing ensures the robustness and transparency of the model.
Although leaving OpenAI, Weng Li said she will continue to update her blog and looks forward to having more time to devote to programming and writing. Her departure has attracted the blessings of many colleagues, which not only marks a new starting point in her personal career, but also means that a new candidate will be available for the key position of OpenAI Security Director.
Key points:
Weng Li announced that she had left OpenAI on November 15 and had served as the head of the security system team.
She worked on several important projects during her time at the company, including GPT-4, and proposed the famous "Agent" formula.
After leaving, Weng Li plans to continue to update his blog and looks forward to investing more time in programming and writing.
Although Weng Li's resignation brought personnel changes to OpenAI, it also provided new opportunities for her personal future development. We look forward to her greater achievements in the future and continue to focus on her research and contributions in the field of AI. I wish her all the best!