WSJ Tech News Briefing · Thursday, August 27, 2026
Barratt Zoff, former CTO of Thinking Machines Lab and previously associated with OpenAI, is joining Google as Vice President of Research. He will focus on reinforcement learning and post-training for Gemini, a move that occurs amid significant AI restructuring at Google.
“Barratt Zoff, co-founder and former CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, is joining Google as Vice President of Research to focus on reinforcement learning and post-training for Gemini.”
“His new role at Google comes during a major AI restructuring at the company, following the recent departures of high-profile researchers.”