
Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini
The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.
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The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.

The co-founder cited stress and workload in her exit note, then surfaced at OpenAI to lead a team on recursive self-improvement.

The startup says its new approach lets AI continuously process audio, video, and text instead of waiting turn-by-turn for users to finish.

At Cloud Next, Google unveils training and inference chips, an agentic Chrome, and a multi-billion dollar compute pact with Mira Murati's lab.
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