Meta has snapped up a fifth founding member from Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab
THE SO WHAT
When a single lab loses five founding engineers to a major platform, talent markets are telling you where frontier work is concentrating. If you’re not a top-3 destination for your niche experts, assume your IP velocity will lag and design around being an integrator, not a frontier lab.
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