Institutional dossier
The documented history of Thinking Machines Lab: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2015 to 2026-07-29 · 8 undated
46 claims · 29 sources · 46 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: Supporting research organisation in John Schulman’s professional biography.
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The dossier is computed from existing records. It is not a continuous history of the institution, and a missing record does not mean that an event or relationship did not happen. The chronology uses the dates of events and reports, not the date the public could first have known of them. Later sources can describe earlier events.
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Chronology
Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.
2025Record year · 3 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported X syndication text
Qualification and date notes
The post establishes the public announcement; it does not name the team members, give an incorporation date or establish roles. TechCrunch’s launch report (reporting) is cited alongside the post.
Date of the X post (18:33 UTC); the public launch, not a date of incorporation.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
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The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch), not a company document retrieved here; the launch blog’s team list could not be retrieved in its February 2025 form. It establishes the reported title at launch only.
Date of the launch report; not a start date.
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The record rests on second-hand reporting: Reuters relaying the Wall Street Journal, retrieved as a TradingView syndication; the Wall Street Journal article and any company statement were not retrieved. No reason is recorded; no Meta title is established.
Date of the Reuters report of the Wall Street Journal report; not a last working day or a start date at Meta.
2026Record year · 4 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported AnnouncedX syndication text
Activity: announced
Qualification and date notes
An announced appointment; the record does not establish a start date or a continuing role.
Announcement date; not a start date.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported X syndication text
Qualification and date notes
The post states the separation without a date or reason; the role left rests on TechCrunch’s reporting. No reason is recorded.
Date of the X post (23:13 UTC); an announcement date, not a last working day.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
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A dated snapshot of the title; it does not establish a start date or a continuing role after March 2026.
Date of the announcement showing the title; TechCrunch reported her as CEO at the February 2025 launch.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reportingX syndication text
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch). Weng’s X post of 27 July 2026 carries her message as an image, which was not machine-checked; the post text describes the decision in personal terms, says she shared a message with colleagues at Thinking Machines and thanks them. No reason is recorded. It does not establish a last working day.
Date of Weng’s X post (19:00 UTC) sharing the message she sent to colleagues, which the report embeds; not a last working day.
Date unknownRecord year · 7 claims
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Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no Thinking Machines Lab page or statement by Weng naming her as a co-founder was retrieved. It does not establish the founding date or her title.
The report gives no founding date; Thinking Machines Lab’s public launch was announced on 18 February 2025 (recorded separately).
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The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no company or first-person statement naming Metz as co-founder was retrieved.
Retrospective description in a 14 January 2026 report; no founding date for the person is given.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
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A company description of its own founder; it does not establish the founding date or the full founder roster.
Retrospective credit in a 10 March 2026 announcement; the founding date of the company is not stated there (see the February 2025 launch claim).
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting (a Reuters wire retrieved as syndicated by TradingView, teaser text only); no company or first-person statement was retrieved.
Retrospective description in an 11 October 2025 wire report; no founding date for the person is given.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
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The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); no company or first-person statement naming Zoph as co-founder was retrieved.
Retrospective description in a 14 January 2026 report; no founding date for the person is given.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
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Undated mutable self-description; no appointment date or independent confirmation of continuing employment.
Source does not establish defensible role boundaries; retrieval date is not an employment date.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
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Self-description establishes founding participation, not incorporation date or corporate descent from OpenAI or Anthropic.
The undated biography supplies no founding date.