Cheng Lou leaves Midjourney after 3.5 years to join Core Automation
Lou planned more than six months off after Midjourney. Core Automation recruited him within weeks to work on Pretext-like tools, Handwired-like systems and one unnamed project.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: x.com
Why it matters
Lou's hire gives Core Automation an engineer whose Handwired work treats programs as directly constructed neural networks, matching the lab's stated search for learning methods beyond large-scale pretraining, reinforcement learning and transformers. The move also shows how much talent and capital frontier labs can attract before releasing a public product.
Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) said on November 7th that he has retired from Midjourney (@midjourney) after 3.5 years and started at Core Automation (@coreauto) the previous week in a thread on X. Lou said he had planned to take more than six months off. He framed the shorter break as a joke, saying he was "taken hostage" by Core Automation and calling it "a crazy story best told in private."…
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