On July 30, according to The Information, Business Inside, North University alumni, the co-founder of the AI Creative Machines Lab ( Th)Lilian Weng) Confirmed return OpenAI.
The OpenAI speaker said that the Ongwan would lead a team focused on accelerating internal research, working on the development of an AI model that would achieve "regressive self-improvement"。
Before that, on July 28th, Ong-Leng resigned from office in the social media. In her letter of separation, she revealed that the number of illnesss in the past seven months had exceeded any stage of life and that long-term stress and work intensity had exceeded the physical limit。
SHE STATED THAT SHE STILL LOVED AI RESEARCH, BUT HOPED TO WORK IN A MORE PREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT WITH A MORE PREDICTABLE RHYTHM AND CLEARER BOUNDARIES OF RESPONSIBILITY, RATHER THAN CONTINUING AS A CO-FOUNDER。
Ongi was a core member of OpenAI, joined in 2018, participated in the Mechanical Dactyl project and formed an OpenAI security system team from zero to serve as Vice-President of Research and Security before leaving office. In February 2025, she co-founded Thinking Machines with OpenAI former CTO Mira Murati and others。