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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google.

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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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