Meta poaches 5th founding member in 'full-scale raid' on Mira Murati’s startup
Mansi Agarwal, Published on Apr 16th, 2026

Meta has hired Joshua Gross from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab. Gross, who has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs, is reportedly the fifth founding member of the AI startup to join Meta. As per reports, Mark Zuckerberg launched a "full-scale raid" on the startup last year after Murati declined Meta's $1 billion acquisition offer.
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