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Founder and chief executive of Thinking Machines Lab, previously chief technology officer of OpenAI.
He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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The Information now puts the raise at $5bn to $6bn on at least $40bn pre-money, with Nvidia writing roughly half the cheque, which makes this a compute-supply arrangement for anyone buying Tinker cluster time.
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Thinking Machines and four academics trained one model past the usual agent pipelines on text-to-SQL, but the part worth copying is the audit they ran first, which put annotation errors in 61.1% of the benchmark examples they checked.
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As senior leaders left, Greg Brockman took over ChatGPT, Codex, enterprise and the infrastructure build, according to The Verge. That puts the consumer-versus-enterprise tradeoff inside a single office, months before an IPO.
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The lab named tamper resistance an open question 40 days after Inkling's weights shipped. The award is platform compute, priced by the grantor and spendable only on the approved study.
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Luke Metz joins Superintelligence Labs after a three-lab loop. The $14.3bn Scale stake and billion-dollar packages set a price rivals now have to match from capital rather than revenue.
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A developer graded 18 expired AI predictions against their own words. The best mark he shows is a C+, and the one he built on took six weeks out of his own roadmap.
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