Another Thinking Machines Lab employee leaves to rejoin OpenAI.
This is the latest in a series of exits from the $12 billion AI startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, which has recently been the subject of high-profile poaching campaigns by major tech companies.
The latest employee to return to OpenAI is Jolene Parish, who joined Thinking Machines Lab last April, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously worked at OpenAI for three years. Previously, she spent 10 years working in security at Apple, according to her profile.
Other employees rejoined OpenAI last month. Two co-founders, former CTO Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, have left, along with researcher Sam Schoenholz.
Another researcher, Leah Guy, has also returned to OpenAI, The Information reported. Another co-founder, Andrew Tulloch, left Meta late last year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab declined to comment.
Thinking Machines Lab raised a massive $2 billion funding round last year, valuing the company at $12 billion, a spokesperson said at the time. The company launched its first product, Tinker, last October.
The San Francisco-based company has become known for attracting star-studded talent. Business Insider previously reported that the company secretly hired Neil Wu, a legendary programmer who won three gold medals at the Programming Olympics, and Soumis Chintala, the developer of Meta’s open source AI project PyTorch and now CTO of Thinking Machines Lab.
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