EventBusinessJuly 29, 2026

Lilian Weng rejoins OpenAI for recursive self-improvement research

Weng left Thinking Machines, which she co-founded, citing health reasons before returning to OpenAI, where she previously served as VP of AI Safety Research. Her new work will focus on recursive self-improvement: using AI models to help build better AI models.

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