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Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (Wall Street Journal)

After a short stint at OpenAI, Zoph will become a vice president of research at Google, which has recently lost a string of high-profile researchers

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