Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship with another employee last summer, WIRED has learned.
That relationship was likely the alleged “misconduct” that has been mentioned in prior reporting, including by WIRED.
To protect the privacy of the individuals involved, WIRED is not naming the employee in question. The individual, who worked in a different department than Zoph and was in a leadership role, is no longer at the lab.
Murati approached Zoph to discuss the relationship, sources say. The cofounders’ working relationship broke down in the months following that conversation, according to multiple sources, and Zoph started speaking
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