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Thinking Machines Lab Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google
Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, has left OpenAI to return to Google as a vice-president of research.
What: Zoph, who previously worked at Google from 2016 to 2022, left OpenAI following internal friction with CEO Mira Murati. He joins Google's effort to improve its code-generation capabilities.
Why it matters: The high turnover among elite AI researchers highlights the intense competition for talent as companies scramble to integrate model development with specific product outcomes like software engineering.
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Barret Zoph was a co-founder at Thinking Machines Lab before defecting to OpenAI this year due to a dispute with Chief Executive Mira Murati. Zoph is now leaving OpenAI to join Google as vice-president of research. Google is currently restructuring its AI development efforts to catch up with rivals in developing AI that can create code. Zoph had worked as a research scientist at Google from 2016 through to 2022.
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