Meta Veteran Soumith Chintala Joins Mira Murati’s New Startup
November 21, 2025
7:08 am
Soumith Chintala, influential engineer in modern artificial intelligence, has joined Thinking Machines Lab, the fast-rising startup by former OpenAI chief Mira Murati.
Chintala revealed the move in a brief message on X on Tuesday November 18, 2025, praising the team at the company and updating his online profiles to reflect his new role. It marks his first career step since leaving Meta earlier in November, ending an 11-year tenure that included co-creating PyTorch, the widely adopted open-source AI framework.
His arrival is a major win for Thinking Machines Lab, which Murati launched in February 2025, with a focus on developing …
