David Li is Co-Founder at Induction Labs, a Y Combinator-backed AI startup building the world's leading foundation models for autonomous computer use.

David studied Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo, developing deep expertise in machine learning and systems engineering before co-founding Induction Labs in 2025.

David operates at the frontier of computer-use AI, pursuing the thesis that human behavior data, not text, is the key to building models that can reliably operate computers.

At Induction Labs, David and his co-founders have built and shipped Axiom-1, a computer-use model that surpasses OpenAI GPT-5, o3, and Anthropic Claude 4 Sonnet on the OSWorld benchmark with 16x lower latency.

In just two months post-launch, Induction Labs established itself as a benchmark leader in autonomous computer use, backed by Y Combinator and actively partnering with teams building next-generation AI agents.