Lilian Weng says she is leaving Thinking Machines to focus on health
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-07-28
Lilian Weng has announced that she is leaving Thinking Machines to focus on health.
The post also points back to her 2019 OpenAI talk, framing her long-running work as an attempt to make hard frontier problems feel worth exploring and more accessible to others.
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