"The move shows that Thinking Machines Lab, valued at over $10 billion, continues to attract star talent, even as it has been the target of aggressive AI poaching campaigns from rivals like Meta. Thinking Machines Lab declined to comment. Wu and Cognition did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. Business Insider reviewed internal correspondence describing Wu as a team member of Thinking Machines Lab, which helps developers train and customize AI models."
"Thinking Machines Lab has seen top staff leave in the last few months. Meta's aggressive poaching effort last year saw the tech giant dangling huge offers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Meta eventually hired cofounder Andrew Tulloch after offering him a compensation package of up to $1.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. In January, its CTO, Barret Zoph, along with two other founding members, abruptly jumped ship back to OpenAI."
Neal Wu, a three-time programming Olympiad gold medalist and founding member of Cognition, has been working at Thinking Machines Lab. Thinking Machines Lab is an AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, valued at over $10 billion, that helps developers train and customize AI models. Wu's role has not been publicly announced; internal correspondence identifies him as a team member while his LinkedIn lists him as cofounder and advisor on "something new" since January 2025. The startup has faced aggressive poaching from rivals like Meta, which recruited cofounder Andrew Tulloch, and experienced departures including CTO Barret Zoph back to OpenAI.
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