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Suddenly, Weng Li officially announced his resignation! Only two members of Mulati’s founding team remain
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Source: zhidx.com
Zhixi Compilation | Yang Jingli Editor | Li Shuiqing Zhixi reported on July 28 that early this morning, Lilian Weng, co-founder of the American AI unicorn Thinking Machines Lab and former vice president of research and security at OpenAI, announced his resignation from X. ▲Weng Li officially announced her resignation from Thinking Machines Lab (Source: X) Weng Li admitted that in the past seven months, she had been sick more frequently than at any other time in her life. The constant stress and workload were beyond what her body could bear, and she could no longer maintain the pace of work required by the startup. Previously, she had been absent from work for a month due to health problems. During Weng Li's vacation, the company released Inkling, the first multi-modal MoE open weight model. Its core advantages are that it is transformable, deployable, and cost-controllable. Developers can fine-tune the model and adjust the inference intensity to control its effect, delay, and cost. Weng Li said that she still loves AI and hopes to continue reading papers and understanding cutting-edge developments, but the next stage is more suitable for taking on a job with clear boundaries of responsibility in an organization with a more predictable rhythm, rather than continuing to serve as a co-founder. After Weng Li officially announced his resignation, Mulati, founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, responded to her tweet: She was very happy that Weng Li put health first and thanked him for everything he had done for Thinking Machines Lab. ▲Mulati’s reply (Picture source: After leaving OpenAI, she co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI. She was involved in the company before it was officially established, and this entrepreneurial experience lasted about 20 months. Currently, Thinking Machines