THINKING MACHINES LAB CO-FOUNDER BARRET ZOPH JOINS GOOGLE

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Barret Zoph was a co-founder at Thinking Machines Lab before defecting to OpenAI this year due to a dispute with Chief Executive Mira Murati. Zoph is now leaving OpenAI to join Google as vice-president of research. Google is currently restructuring its AI development efforts to catch up with rivals in developing AI that can create code. Zoph had worked as a research scientist at Google from 2016 through to 2022.