Exclusive | The Messy Human Drama That Dealt a Blow to One of AI’s Hottest Startups - WSJ

kept by eddie jan 21

Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati fired co-founder Barret Zoph after a tense meeting where Zoph and others threatened to leave unless he gained full technical control.

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley - The New York Times
The New York Times reports on internal turmoil, defections, and failed deal talks at AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, valued at $12 billion without a product.
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The Neolabs Are a Bet Against Superintelligence
Investors betting billions on new AGI startups are wagering against near-term superintelligence, expecting AI progress to plateau despite current trends, with neolabs having far less capital and compute than OpenAI or Anthropic.
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Learning to Replicate Expert Judgment in Financial Tasks - Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab fine-tuned a custom model on expert-labeled financial data to outperform frontier LLMs on information-filtering tasks at lower cost.
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