Mira Murati's AI startup loses co-founders as they rejoin OpenAI

Mansi Agarwal, Published on Jan 15th, 2026

Mira Murati's AI startup loses co-founders as they rejoin OpenAI

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab has lost three key employees to OpenAI. Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz and senior member Samuel Schoenholz have rejoined the Sam Altman-led firm after working with Thinking Machines for over a year. Murati said Zoph, who was also the CTO, will be succeeded by Soumith Chintala.

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