Thinking Machines Lab Poaches Meta AI Researchers
After eight years at Meta, Weiyao Wang has transitioned to Thinking Machines Lab (TML), an AI startup that recently landed a multibillion-dollar cloud partnership with Google for access to Nvidia's GB300 chips. This deal, revealed at Google Cloud Next, positions TML alongside Anthropic and Meta in terms of infrastructure. TML has been actively recruiting from Meta, bringing on board Soumith Chintala, co-founder of PyTorch and now TML's CTO, who departed Meta in late 2025. Other former Meta employees joining TML include Piotr Dollár, Andrea Madotto, and James Sun. In turn, Meta has recruited seven founding members from TML. TML currently employs about 140 people and holds a valuation of $12 billion.
Key facts
- Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta and joined Thinking Machines Lab.
- TML signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google for Nvidia GB300 chips.
- The deal was announced at Google Cloud Next.
- Soumith Chintala, co-founder of PyTorch, is TML's CTO.
- Meta has poached seven of TML's founding members.
- TML is valued at $12 billion.
- TML has released only one product so far.
- TML's headcount is approximately 140.
Entities
Institutions
- Meta
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Nvidia
- Anthropic
- Harvard
- Business Insider
- PyTorch
- FAIR
- International Olympiad in Informatics
- Cognition
- Waymo
- Windsurf
- OpenAI
- Apple
- Microsoft
- TechCrunch