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Barret Zoph

co-founder & cto at Thinking Machines Lab

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Barret Zoph is an AI researcher who served as VP of Research, Post-Training at OpenAI from 2022 to 2024, where his team worked on the models powering ChatGPT and the API. He was previously at Google Brain for nearly seven years and later co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati before rejoining OpenAI in early 2026.

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Thinking Machines Lab

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