Lilian Weng returns to OpenAI for recursive self-improvement research

The Thinking Machines cofounder is the third founder from Mira Murati's lab to return to OpenAI this year.

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OpenAI is reclaiming a third Thinking Machines cofounder and assigning Weng to research that could shorten the cycle for designing, training and evaluating successor models.

A delicate mechanical lattice symbolizes recursive self-improvement research, linking Lilian Weng and OpenAI.

Lilian Weng (@lilianweng) is returning to OpenAI to work on using AI systems to develop new models, according to reporting by The Information on Wednesday.…

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