Thinking Machines is nothing without its people
More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI. Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.
Thursday, Jan 15th. Well, it’s technically the 15th here in Paris, where I’m struggling to overcome jet lag.
3 things you should know:
Cursor employees used Cursor to build a browser from scratch with GPT 5.2. It “ran uninterrupted for one week” and generated over 3 million lines of code. The verdict: “It *kind of* works!”
If you are an expert in any of the following areas: “deep learning, supply chains, commodities, semiconductors, sovereigns, energy, Excel, prediction markets, monitoring situations,” then Meta’s new Compute org wants you!
Anthropic co-founders who have quit to date: still zero.
Thinking Machines drama
The vibes are off at Thinking Machines, the almost one-year-old neolab founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mura Murati.
As I first reported earlier today, more Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join the three founding members who just rejoined OpenAI: ex-CTO Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz. Sources say at least a couple others have already resigned from Thinking Machines after a tense all-hands meeting Murati held on Wednesday about Zoph’s departure, and more are expected to follow suit. Talks are fulid and it’s unclear exactly how many members of Murati’s small startup will ultimately decamp to OpenAI.
