Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab quietly hired a legendary coder amid top leaders leaving

Thinking Machines Lab CEO Mira Murati.

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• Neal Wu, a top competitive coder, has quietly been working at Thinking Machines Lab.
• Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has faced aggressive poaching.
• Wu is a founding member of another hot AI startup, Cognition, and the brother of its CEO.

An award-winning coder has been quietly working for Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati.