Meta quietly hired two more founding members from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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OpenAI loses 3 top executives as it cuts back on 'side quests'

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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  • OpenAI lost three executives on Friday.
  • Under applications CEO Fidji Simo, OpenAI has shifted focus by cutting side projects.
  • Anthropic has been gaining traction and challenging OpenAI's market position.

OpenAI lost three top executives on Friday.

Meta has snapped up a fifth founding member from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab

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Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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Meta is assembling an elite new AI lab for its recommendations division

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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OpenAI's talent pipeline: Who's feeding and hiring away workers at Sam Altman's AI giant

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Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

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Greg Brockman, OpenAI's President, reflected on the tktk-day period when CEO Sam Altman was removed from his duties.

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Meta is forming a new AI engineering org for its superintelligence push, with teams as large as 50 people per manager

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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

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Murati's AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is seeking a $2 billion seed funding round, which could be the largest seed funding round in history.
Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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xAI is hiring an 'elite unit' that reports directly to Elon Musk to recruit top engineers

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xAI is revamping its hiring strategy.

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11 executives and researchers who left Google in 2025 — mostly for Microsoft

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Google lost AI and cloud employees to rivals, mainly Microsoft, in 2025.

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