{"id":1025004,"date":"2026-07-30T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025004"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T05:37:10","slug":"less-than-a-week-after-thinking-machines-cofounder-lilian-weng-resigned-citing-stress-and-illness-she-is-rejoining-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/less-than-a-week-after-thinking-machines-cofounder-lilian-weng-resigned-citing-stress-and-illness-she-is-rejoining-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than a week after Thinking Machines cofounder Lilian Weng resigned citing stress and illness, she is rejoining Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after announcing her resignation from Thinking Machines Lab citing stress and illness, cofounder Lilian Weng is now returning to work alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. According to a report by Business Insider, Weng, who previously served as OpenAI\u2019s vice president of research and safety, said she had been ill more often in the past seven months than at any other point in her life. In her farewell post, she explained that the \u201cconsistent stress and workload\u201d of building a startup had pushed her beyond what her health could sustain.<\/p>\n<p>Weng\u2019s departure came as Thinking Machines was sprinting to release its first open-weight model, Inkling. She admitted feeling \u201cguilt\u201d about taking sick leave during that critical period and considered narrowing her role before deciding to step away entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week after announcing her resignation from Thinking Machines Lab citing stress and illness, cofounder Lilian Weng is now returning to work alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. According to a report by Business Insider, Weng, who previously served as OpenAI\u2019s vice president of research and safety, said she had been ill more often in the past seven months than at any other point in her life. In her farewell post, she explained that the \u201cconsistent stress and workload\u201d of building a startup had pushed her beyond what her health could sustain. Weng\u2019s departure came as Thinking Machines was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025005,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025004\/revisions\/1025005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}