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Barret Zoph

Barret Zoph founded Thinking Machines Lab (2025), and previously worked at Google and OpenAI.

Artificial Intelligence Since 2025
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Companies founded by Barret Zoph

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Thinking Machines Lab Private 🦄 Unicorn
Artificial Intelligence · USA
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Co-founders

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Andrew Tulloch
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Barrett Zoph
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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John Schulman
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Lilian Weng
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Luke Metz
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab
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Mira Murati
Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab

Came from

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Where Barret Zoph worked or built before — the roots of the lineage.

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Google Public
Software & IT · USA
Mafia →
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OpenAI Private 🦄 Unicorn
Artificial Intelligence · USA
Mafia →

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Abraham Bachrach
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Adam Bry
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Adrian Graham
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Aidan N. Gomez
British-Canadian computer scientist (born 1996/97)
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Amit Sangani
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Andrej Karpathy
Czechoslovak-born AI researcher (born 1986)
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Andrew Boni
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Andrew Conrad
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Andrew Ofstad

Also came from OpenAI

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Aravind Srinivas
American artificial intelligence company
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Chris Olah
Canadian machine learning researcher (born 1991 or 1992)
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Daniel Levy
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Daniela Amodei
American entrepreneur (born 1987)
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Dario Amodei
American AI entrepreneur (born 1983)
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David Luan
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Elon Musk
Businessman (born 1971)
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Igor Babuschkin
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Ilya Sutskever
Computer scientist (born 1986)