Baqiao Liu

_{RuneBlaze · LBQ · Ushiromiya右　代　宮 Lion　理　御}

“a paragon.” — Haskell IRC, 2018, on data-emoticons

Mostly works on generative AI. Started as an indie game dev and got here by some weird coincidence. Polishes things to death; said to be quite versatile.

Now · Member of Technical Staff, World Labs Before · xAI (now part of SpaceX) · Adobe Firefly, multimodal data

In 2024, Pen Apple won Best Game at Google's Gemini API Developer Competition.

_{Umineko spoilers}

For the longest time at xAI I larped as Ushiromiya Lion (右代宮 理御), went by my alt account @ushiromiya-lion, and appear in the XGrammar 2.0 acknowledgements under that name. In memory of the tragic character.

Elsewhere

• runeblaze.github.io — about me
• THBWiki · TouhouDB — Touhou doujin music, circle Mad Hatter Tea
• Google Scholar