Core Insights - The article highlights the achievements of Boyuan Chen, a Chinese researcher at OpenAI, who recently completed his PhD at MIT in under four years, focusing on world models, embodied AI, and reinforcement learning [1][5][7]. Group 1: Academic Background and Achievements - Boyuan Chen holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, with a minor in philosophy [7][24]. - He has been involved in significant projects at OpenAI, including the development of GPT image generation technology and the Sora video generation team [5][1]. - During his time at Google DeepMind, he contributed to the training of multimodal large language models (MLLM) using large-scale synthetic data [7][10]. Group 2: Research Focus and Future Aspirations - Chen emphasizes the importance of visual world models for embodied intelligence, believing that integrating these fields will enhance AI's understanding and interaction with the physical world [4][7]. - He expresses optimism about the future of embodied intelligence, predicting it will be a key technology for the next century and hopes to witness the emergence of general-purpose robots [17][20]. - OpenAI is reportedly increasing its efforts in robotics technology, aiming to develop algorithms for controlling robots and hiring experts in humanoid robotics [20].