{"id":586920,"date":"2026-04-16T02:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:41:10","slug":"thinking-machines-lab-loses-another-founding-member-to-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586920\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Machines Lab Loses Another Founding Member to Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has lost another founding member to Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A veteran software engineer, Joshua Gross, built and shipped Thinking Machines Lab’s flagship product, Tinker, from “zero-to-one,” according to his LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

He joined Meta Superintelligence Labs last month and now leads engineering teams, according to his LinkedIn profile. Gross had previously worked at OpenAI and Meta (formerly Facebook).<\/p>\n

Thinking Machines Lab<\/a>, which raised a huge $2 billion funding round at a $12 billion valuation last year, has become an AI talent hub. It has faced a wave of poaching from larger tech companies as Silicon Valley’s AI talent wars grow hotter than ever.<\/p>\n

Meta has now hired five of its founding members, including cofounder Andrew Tulloch. Meanwhile, OpenAI hired the startup’s ex-CTO, Barret Zoph, and a top cybersecurity employee,\u00a0Jolene Parish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thinking Machines Lab has had notable wins of its own. It replaced its CTO with Meta’s Soumith Chintala<\/a>, the creator of the open-source AI project PyTorch, and it quietly hired Neal Wu<\/a>, a coder who won three gold medals in an Olympiad for programming, Business Insider previously reported.<\/p>\n

The startup, which is based in San Francisco, has more than quadrupled in size to about 130 staffers since its founding last year, according to a person familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Meta and Thinking Machines Lab declined to comment.<\/p>\n

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