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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job.

Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left the AI lab the month prior. In January, Zoph and another Thinking Machines co-founder, Luke Metz, quite dramatically departed from the startup to return to OpenAI.

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.