Thinking Machines Lab Loses Another Founding Member to Meta
Business Insider • • technology
Key Points:
- Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost another founding member, Joshua Gross, to Meta, where he now leads engineering teams at Meta Superintelligence Labs.
- Gross was instrumental in building the startup's flagship product, Tinker, and previously worked at both OpenAI and Meta.
- Meta has recruited five founding members from Thinking Machines Lab, including cofounder Andrew Tulloch, while OpenAI has also hired key personnel such as the startup's former CTO Barret Zoph.
- Despite these departures, Thinking Machines Lab has made significant hires, including Meta's Soumith Chintala as CTO and coder Neal Wu, and has grown to about 130 employees since its founding last year.
- The startup raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation last year and continues to be a major player in the competitive Silicon Valley AI talent market.
