Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain
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Weiyao Wang, who spent eight years at Meta working on multimodal perception systems, has joined Thinking Machines Lab (TML) as it expands rapidly. TML recently secured a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google, enhancing its capabilities with Nvidia's latest chips and elevating its status in the AI landscape, especially as Meta has been actively recruiting from TML.
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Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multibillion-dollar cloud deal with Google.
The startup's valuation has reached $12 billion, despite releasing only one product.
Meta has poached seven founding members from Thinking Machines Lab recently.
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