Engineer leaves Thinking Machines, returns to Modal after year of ML infra work
charles_irl · x · 2026-11-09
ekzhang1 announces he's back at Modal after a year at Thinking Machines, where he worked on ML and production systems, new kernels for training/inference, scaling research infra, fast interaction models and RL dynamics. He joined as the youngest of 60 employees among ex-OpenAI/Meta/GDM/Mistral folks, and notes the company has reinvented itself many times and looks to be on a good path after recent releases.
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