Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge)

<a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952837/barret-zoph-openai-thinking-machines-lab?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjdKd1ZGY2MzRTIiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzk1MjgzNy9iYXJyZXQtem9waC1vcGVuYWktdGhpbmtpbmctbWFjaGluZXMtbGFiIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMjc2NzM3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODE4NDQ3Mzd9.AMiVMIH0zXm4EpnP_GvMmZ94o5_utN_PjQvciR74kd0&amp;utm_medium=gift-link"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260619/i3.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260619/p3#a260619p3" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Hayden Field / <a href="https://www.theverge.com/">The Verge</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/952837/barret-zoph-openai-thinking-machines-lab?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IjdKd1ZGY2MzRTIiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzk1MjgzNy9iYXJyZXQtem9waC1vcGVuYWktdGhpbmtpbmctbWFjaGluZXMtbGFiIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyMjc2NzM3LCJpYXQiOjE3ODE4NDQ3Mzd9.AMiVMIH0zXm4EpnP_GvMmZ94o5_utN_PjQvciR74kd0&amp;utm_medium=gift-link">Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph &mdash; the company's head of enterprise AI sales &mdash; has departed, The Verge has learned.</p>