Barret Zoph (Thinking Machines CTO), Luke Metz (Thinking Machines co-founder) and Sam Schoenholz leave Thinking Machines and return to OpenAI. Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines.
leaving to try and explore types of research that are hard to do at OpenAI
If OpenAI can’t support a non-standard approach even when a person wanting to explore it has accomplished so much, that’s not a good sign for the company.
The really important departure is Jerry Tworek saying that he is leaving OpenAI (January 5): https://x.com/MillionInt/status/2008237251751534622
If OpenAI can’t support a non-standard approach even when a person wanting to explore it has accomplished so much, that’s not a good sign for the company.