Eric Zhang leaves Thinking Machines and returns to Modal
charles_irl · x · 2026-11-10
Eric Zhang (ekzhang1) announced he's back at Modal after a formative stint at Thinking Machines, where — as the youngest of 60 employees — he worked on training/inference kernels, scaled research infra, made interaction models fast, and wrangled RL dynamics. He says the company's recent model releases show it's on a good path. Modal's akshatb teases "some bangers" coming soon.
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