前 Thinking Machines 联合创始人 Barret Zoph 加入 Google 任研究副总裁
原标题：Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google
AI 摘要
Barret Zoph，Thinking Machines 的联合创始人，在离开 OpenAI 后已加入 Google，担任研究副总裁。Zoph 曾在 OpenAI 工作两年，于 2024 年 10 月离职共同创立 Thinking Machines，今年 1 月返回 OpenAI 但仅五个月后再次离职。Google 发言人确认他将利用强化学习和后训练专业知识支持 Gemini 项目。
正文节选
The game of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines who left the company earlier this year to rejoin OpenAI, has found yet another job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who had left the AI lab the month prior. In January, Zoph and another Thinking Machines co-founder, Luke Metz, quite dramatically departed from the startup to return to OpenAI. It was later reve