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

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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Lucas Ropek27 Aug 2026, 07:52 pmUpdated 43 min ago1 min readTechGlobal

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

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.

This report is published with credit to TechCrunch. The wire sent a summary; open the original for any extra context. Read on TechCrunch →

Source: TechCrunch · Lucas Ropek. Published 27 Aug 2026, 07:52 pm.

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