2 founding members of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab quietly left for Meta

"Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak are both listed as members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team on an earlier version of its website. Both have been working at Meta for a few weeks, according to sources familiar with the matter. Gibson is a former OpenAI engineer who specializes in supercomputers used for training AI models and who worked on the first ChatGPT model."

"Another Thinking Machines Lab cofounder, Andrew Tulloch, left for Meta last year. Last month, it lost its CTO, Barret Zoph, and Luke Metz, both cofounders, to OpenAI, along with two researchers. Thinking Machines Lab also lost Jolene Parish, a founding member who specializes in security."

"Thinking Machines Lab has become known for attracting top AI talent. It quietly hired Neal Wu, a coder who won three gold medals in an Olympiad for programming, and Soumith Chintala, the creator of the open-source AI project PyTorch at Meta, who is now its CTO."

Thinking Machines Lab, the $12 billion AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has experienced significant talent departures. Two founding team members, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, recently joined Meta. Gibson is a former OpenAI engineer specializing in AI training supercomputers who worked on ChatGPT. Shpak is an AI engineer with experience at Character.AI and X. This departure follows previous exits including cofounder Andrew Tulloch to Meta last year, and cofounders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz to OpenAI last month. The startup has faced ongoing poaching from major tech companies despite its focus on helping developers build custom AI models.

Read at Business Insider