1988 年生于阿尔巴尼亚 Vlorë。16 岁通过 UWC 项目去加拿大,Dartmouth 机械工程本科。Tesla Model X 工程项目经理(2013-2016),Leap Motion 产品 VP。2018 加入 OpenAI 任 VP of Applied AI,2022 升 CTO,主导 ChatGPT/DALL-E/Sora 产品研发。2024.9 离职。2025.2 创办 Thinking Machines Lab,7 月 a16z 领投种子轮 $20 亿估值 $120 亿(Nvidia/AMD/Cisco/Jane Street 跟投)。2025.10 发布首款产品 Tinker(语言模型微调 API)。2026.3 与 NVIDIA 达成战略合作,部署 1 GW Vera Rubin 算力,并计划 2026 年发布自研模型;期间估值谈判推进至 $500-600 亿。联创团队:Barret Zoph(前 OpenAI VP Post-training)+ Lilian Weng(前 OpenAI VP)+ John Schulman(从 Anthropic 跳来,任首席科学家)。 By 2026 Thinking Machines Lab (valued around $12B) had lost several founding members: Meta hired at least five, including co-founder Andrew Tulloch on a package reported at $1.5B over six years; Barret Zoph, Luke Metz and Sam Schoenholz returned to OpenAI in Jan 2026; and Lilian Weng left, the fourth co-founder to depart within a year.