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OpenAI Hires Three AI Researchers From Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

DATE POSTED:January 14, 2026

OpenAI has rehired prominent AI researchers Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz, who had been working at rival Thinking Machines Lab, according to an X post from OpenAI applications chief Fidji Simo.

The three researchers left OpenAI in late 2024 to help establish Thinking ...