Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google

Source: techcrunch.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:52:52 GMT

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

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