key lab - Meta Recruits Key Talent from AI Startup Thinking Machines Lab
Meta has successfully recruited three more employees from Thinking Machines Lab (TML), an AI startup valued at $12 billion. Founding members Mark Jen and Yinghai Lu, along with researcher Tianyi Zhang, have joined Meta, according to Business Insider. This brings the total number of TML founding team members who have moved to Meta to seven, including Joshua Gross, who was instrumental in launching TML's flagship product, Tinker.The talent shift comes as TML continues to attract top researchers, despite losing key engineering personnel to Meta. Notably, OpenAI has also recruited TML's founding team member Jolene Parish. Meanwhile, TML has bolstered its team by hiring Neal Wu, a three-time gold medalist at the International Olympiad in Informatics. The movement of talent highlights the competitive landscape in the AI sector, with major players like Meta and OpenAI actively seeking top talent from emerging startups.