Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab

If someone every makes an HBO Max series about the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode.

On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI in late 2024.

WIRED reported Wednesday night on two narratives forming around what led to the departures, and has since learned new information.

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