A programmer has long been quietly working for Thinking Machines Lab, the Artificial Intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati.
Neal Wu is a three-time gold medalist at an International Programming Olympiad and a founding member of the $10 billion-valued AI coding startup Cognition.
He is the older brother of Scott Wu, CEO and co-founder of Cognition, writes Business Insider.
This move shows that Thinking Machines Lab, valued at over $10 billion, continues to attract outstanding talent.
It is not clear what Wu's exact position is.
But his LinkedIn profile says he has been working as a co-founder and advisor for "something new" since January 2025, around the time Murat's startup launched.
Otherwise, senior staff at Thinking Machines Lab have been laid off in recent months.
In January, chief technology officer Barret Zoph, along with two other founding members, unexpectedly returned to OpenAI.
It is reported that Thinking Machines Lab has a strong staff background, with employees coming from AI labs such as OpenAI and Meta. /Telegraph/
