AI Pioneer Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind After Brief OpenAI Stint
Barret Zoph has joined Google DeepMind as Vice President of Research, marking another high-profile talent shift in the competitive AI landscape.
Renowned AI researcher Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines and former research executive at OpenAI, has joined Google DeepMind to lead key initiatives in scaling frontier architectures.
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Zoph's move comes amidst intense competition among tech giants recruiting top machine learning scientists capable of engineering post-transformer reasoning systems.
At DeepMind, Zoph will work alongside CEO Demis Hassabis to direct pre-training strategies for future iterations of Gemini models.