Leadersby GlyphWeiyao Wang
Joins Thinking Machines Lab · Apr 24, 2026 · News
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Thinking Machines LabWhy, in the source's words
Weiyao Wang spent eight years at Meta — his first job out of college — helping build multimodal perception systems and contributing to open-world segmentation projects, including SAM3D. His final day at Meta was last week, and he has since joined Thinking Machines Lab (TML).
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- Announced
- Apr 24, 2026 6 months ago
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