// PERSON
Lilian Weng
MENTIONS 1LAST SEEN JULY 30, 2026
// BIO
Lilian Weng is an AI researcher who currently leads a team at OpenAI focused on accelerating internal research and recursive self-improvement. She previously co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in early 2025 and spent nearly seven years at OpenAI in her first tenure, where she founded the Applied AI Research team and later led Safety Systems work as VP of AI Safety. She is also known for authoring the widely-read technical blog Lil'Log.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
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hire·20VC·JULY 30, 2026
“Lillian Way left Thinking Machines, which makes only two of the original six co-founders remain.”
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