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Former Thinking Machines co-founder who returned to OpenAI after high-profile departure from the startup.
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Mar 2026 — Sep 2026
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Mira MuratiFounder
3 shared articlesAndrej KarpathyResearcher
2 shared articlesMaxwell ZeffJournalist
2 shared articlesJohannes HeideckeEngineer
2 shared articlesJoshua AchiamResearcher
2 shared articlesMark ChenExecutive
2 shared articlesFidji SimoExecutive
2 shared articlesMia GlaeseExecutive
2 shared articlesSaachi JainEngineer
2 shared articlesJohn SchulmanResearcher
2 shared articlesMiles BrundageResearcher
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OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
WIREDcautiousSep 9, 2026
“Left OpenAI in 2024 to cofound Thinking Machines Lab with other OpenAI researchers, predecessor to Johannes Heidecke.”
Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
TechCrunchmixedSep 4, 2026
“Former Thinking Machines co-founder who returned to OpenAI after high-profile departure from the startup.”
Richard Ngo OpenAI resign safety
TransformernegativeAug 17, 2026
“Lilian Weng, OpenAI's VP of Research and Safety, announced her resignation, joining the exodus of safety-focused employees.”
Top OpenAI catastrophic risk official steps down abruptly
ObsoletenegativeAug 17, 2026
“OpenAI safety lead who left in November and joined Thinking Machines Labs startup launched by Mira Murati.”
Anthropic pays AI's biggest salaries. Its CEO just discovered people might take them for the money
The Next WebcautiousAug 4, 2026
“Co-founder of Mira Murati's lab who left to join OpenAI, part of broader researcher exodus.”
Thinking Machines Cofounder Joined OpenAI
TechCrunchmixedJul 30, 2026
“Left her AI startup Thinking Machines due to health concerns from startup stress and rejoined OpenAI to lead research on recursive self-improvement.”
Lilian Wang reportedly re-joined OpenAI
XpositiveJul 30, 2026
“Thinking Machines co-founder who departed citing stress and illness, then rejoined OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement and using AI to develop new models.”
5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World's Fair 2026
Latent SpacecautiousJul 14, 2026
“Former OpenAI researcher who wrote influential essays on LLM agents and harness engineering for AI systems.”
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
Lilian Weng's BlogcautiousJul 8, 2026
“Author of blog post on harness engineering for self-improvement discussing recursive self-improvement in AI systems.”
Scaling Laws, Carefully
Lilian Weng's BlogcautiousJun 26, 2026
“Published research on scaling laws in deep learning and their practical applications for model training.”
The Rise of the AI Engineer
Latent SpacepositiveMar 31, 2026
“Authored a must-read recap on autonomous agents like Auto-GPT and BabyAGI.”