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• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  It sure *seems* like Mira Murati is conducting a smear campaign against her co-founder.  Feels like the odds that Thinking Machines goes to zero just went way up www.wired.com/story/thinki...

• @katie-drummond Katie Drummond on bluesky

  Andy Cohen is missing such a great reality TV opportunity — following the hot mess of AI company personnel drama, which continues to escalate in insanity:

• @prietschka Paul Rietschka on bluesky

  These people took $2B in seed last July and have obviously been spending their time wisely.  —  What are they building, anyway?  Another LLM? [embedded post]

• @tszzl Roon on x

  @ZeffMax “misconduct” so bad that it required six months and for him to quit and accept a competing offer before he was fired

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  New: Leaders at Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup's cofounder, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer, WIRED has learned. That relationship was likely the original “misconduct” you've heard about this week. [image]

• @kimmonismus @kimmonismus on x

  Update zum Thinking Machine Exodus Leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted cofounder Barret Zoph over an alleged workplace relationship deemed “serious misconduct,” which ultimately preceded his termination. The fallout strained his partnership with Mira Murati, accelerated […

• @kenwattana Ken Wattana on x

  This is sloppier than WeWork

• @aakashgupta Aakash Gupta on x

  Thinking Machines raised the largest seed round in Silicon Valley history last July. $2 billion from a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Jane Street. Valued at $12 billion before shipping a product. Currently in talks to raise at $50 billion. The co-founder math is brutal. Started with six. [imag…

• @chainyoda @chainyoda on x

  Barrett was supposed to ship an AGI girlfriend