Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
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12:52 PM PDT · August 27, 2026
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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.
Barret Zoph, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, has been appointed Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind after…
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He rejoined the company in January after a stint as co-founder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.
Zoph will join Google's DeepMind as Vice President of Research after serving as Vice President of Research at OpenAI.
Barret Zoph, who also co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and held roles at OpenAI, is returning to Google to lead research
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Google DeepMind: Thinking Machines Lab cofounder Barret Zoph joins Google - The Economic Times
