On July 28th, the co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, an alumni of North UniversityLilian WengIn social mediaquit a jobLetter, officially leaving the house for 20 months, the AI Initial Company. Just a few days ago, Thinking Machines just released its first large open source model, Inkling。
In his letter of separation, he indicated that the main reason for leaving was health. She mentioned that in the past seven months, she had been ill more frequently than at any point in the past, and had suffered from a sense of guilt that he could not work because of the illness during the company ' s assault on Inkling。
Ong Yi had previously served in OpenAI for more than six years, formed an over-80 human security system team from zero and served as Vice-President of Research and Security. After leaving OpenAI in November 2024, she created Thinking Machines in February 2025, together with OpenAI's former CTO Mira Murati and others。
Thinking Machines received $2 billion in seed ship financing at its inception, with a 16z-led investment, with a post-investment valuation of $12 billion. Over the past year, however, the company has experienced frequent personnel changes, and several core members, including the co-founders, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, have returned to OpenAI。
At present, Thinking Machines has entered into a strategic partnership with Weaverda and has online the model fine-tuning tool Tinker and open source model Inkling, which is in a critical transition from the R & D phase to product delivery。