The battle map of Grok 4 has gone viral across the internet. 80% of Chinese people are sweeping through Silicon Valley, led by alumni from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with post - 1995ers taking the center stage.

Grok 4 suddenly became a sensation in Silicon Valley overnight, and the behind - the - scenes team deserves a lot of credit. Today, an internal battle map has been going viral across the entire network, with Chinese scholars accounting for up to 80%. Alumni from Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Zhejiang University, etc. are gathered here, and there is also a co - founder born in the 1995s.

In just two years, the sudden emergence of Grok 4 by Musk's xAI team has propelled them to the top of the AI field.

At yesterday's one - hour press conference, Grok 4 opened everyone's eyes and directly broke the records of the two major benchmarks, AIME 2025 and the Human Last Exam (HLE).

This is an amazing result achieved by stacking 200,000 GPUs. More specifically, the computing power of Grok 4 has soared by 100 times.

A member of the xAI team proudly stated, "Scaling reinforcement learning is the right path!"

Nowadays, the focus of Silicon Valley tycoons is no longer just on the release of AI models. The top - notch teams behind them are in the spotlight.

Especially at a time when there is a crazy talent - hunting war, Zuckerberg is eyeing the next wave of candidates.

At the same time, Daniel, an xAI employee, posted a battle map of the Grok 4 team, which quickly went viral.

At a glance, almost 80% of the faces are Chinese scholars.

Xuechen Li, a current xAI researcher who graduated with a doctorate from Stanford University, sighed, "The explosive power of a small group of top - notch talents under extreme focus can achieve such great achievements in a very short period of time!"

The celebration after the Grok 4 press conference

Next, let's take stock of who are the top - notch Chinese teams behind Grok 4?

The powerhouse behind Grok 4, with an amazing proportion of Chinese

First, let's look at the two Chinese scholars who were able to sit at the press conference next to Musk.

They are also well - known figures publicly introduced by xAI. They also sat beside Musk during the last Grok 3 live - broadcast.

At the Grok 4 press conference, the person on the far right of the picture is Jimmy Ba, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and a student of AI guru Hinton. He is also a member of the founding team.

The other is Tony Wu, a co - founder of xAI. He holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto. He was born in the 1995s and was also a core developer of AlphaGeometry and AlphaStar.

Other Chinese scholars include:

Greg Yang

Greg Yang is one of the founding members of xAI.

He studied mathematics at Harvard University for his undergraduate and master's degrees. His supervisor is the mathematician Shing - tung Yau. He won an honorable mention for the Morgan Prize in 2018.

Before joining xAI, he was a senior researcher at Microsoft, responsible for AI theoretical research.

Zihang Dai

Zihang Dai graduated from the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University for his undergraduate degree. He conducted research under the guidance of the famous computer vision expert Songchun Zhu.

In addition, he also obtained a master's and a doctor's degree from CMU.

He was a former researcher at Google Brain and has in - depth knowledge in the field of natural language processing (NLP), especially in optimizing and innovating the Transformer architecture.

Guodong Zhang

Guodong Zhang obtained a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University in 2017 and a doctor's degree from the University of Toronto in 2022.

After graduating with his doctorate, he joined Google DeepMind as a research scientist.

Shengyang Sun

Shengyang Sun leads a team of AI experts at xAI.

He obtained a doctorate in computer science from the University of Toronto in 2022 and a bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2017.

Before joining xAI, he worked at NVIDIA for more than a year as a senior research scientist and at Amazon as an applied machine - learning scientist.

Bill Yuchen Lin

Bill Yuchen Lin is currently a researcher at xAI and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Washington (UW). He focuses on LLM alignment, AI agent training, reasoning, and multimodal large - scale models.

He obtained a doctorate from the University of Southern California in 2022. He also obtained a bachelor's degree from the IEEE Honor Class at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and won the school - level outstanding graduation thesis award during his school years.

Xuechen Li

Xuechen Li obtained a master's and a doctor's degree from the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Before that, he also obtained a bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto.

Public information shows that he also studied at Beijing No. 4 High School.

Before joining xAI, he was a student researcher at Google and interned at Microsoft for four months.

Tianle (Tim) Li

Tianle (Tim) Li focuses on the post - training work of the Grok model at xAI.

Before that, he obtained a bachelor's degree in EECS from UC Berkeley and participated in the research and development of the famous LMArena competition platform.

Haotian Liu

Haotian Liu is a core developer of Grok - 1.5V, Grok - 2, and Grok - 3.

He obtained a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 2024 under the guidance of Professor Yong Jae Lee.

Before that, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University and was awarded the title of outstanding graduate.

Lianmin Zheng

Lianmin