AI Researcher Barret Zoph Returns to Google DeepMind

Barret Zoph, co-founder of Mira Murati's $12 billion Thinking Machines Lab, has joined Google DeepMind as VP of Research to help improve Google's AI system, Gemini. His career path — Google, then OpenAI, then Thinking Machines Lab, back to OpenAI, then Google again in under two years — shows how top AI talent keeps moving between rival labs.