The AI industry employee shake-up continues. The three staffers, who had left for ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s own AI startup, are now back at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, wrote on X that she was “excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back” and that the decision “has been in the works for several weeks.”
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Mira Murati, its founder and CEO (as well as ex-CTO of OpenAI), announced that the AI startup has “parted ways with Barret Zoph,” its co-founder and CTO, who is also an ex-OpenAI employee. Murati said that Soumith Chintala will take over as Thinking Machines Lab’s finance chief.
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They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.
Hundreds gathered to peacefully protest the killing of Renee Nicole Good.
Unlike the consumer-facing ChatGPT Health announced Wednesday, the new OpenAI for Healthcare products launching today are designed do things like create reusable templates for discharge summaries and patient instructions, or analyze medical evidence to apply to specific patients.
ChatGPT for Healthcare is already being used by healthcare organizations like Boston Children’s Hospital, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
But it’s ‘not intended for diagnosis or treatment.’
The Series E round surpassed the $15 billion target, per a blog post, and xAI said that Grok 5 is in training and the company is “focused on launching innovative new consumer and enterprise products.” The news comes amid a widespread controversy in many countries over Grok’s ability to undress photos of women and children at a user’s request.
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