Who is Soumith Chintala? Meet the new Indian-origin CTO of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

Soumith Chintala, the Indian-origin AI researcher and co-creator of PyTorch (one of the world’s most influential open-source deep learning frameworks) has been appointed as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Thinking Machines Lab, the ambitious AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. The announcement, made by Murati on X (formerly Twitter), highlights Chintala’s decade-plus contributions to the AI field and his role as a “major contributor” to the team.