Soumith Chintala, co-creator of PyTorch, is now CTO of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs. This mov...
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The move of a foundational infra architect (Chintala) to a new top-tier frontier lab (Thinking Machine Labs) targets a $50B valuation, signaling a major talent consolidation and a new elite player entering the scaling race.
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Soumith Chintala, co-creator of PyTorch, is now CTO of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machine Labs. This move pairs 11 years of Meta infrastructure expertise with OpenAI’s product legacy to solve AI scaling limits. With PyTorch used in over 80% of research, Chintala will drive vertical integration between frameworks and frontier models. This consolidation of elite talent aims to optimize compute efficiency as the startup targets a $50 billion valuation. 🚀
