The White House
OpenAI
Princeton University
Harvard University
Eric ZhangEngineer
Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff
via Thinking Machines Lab
Executive
Jonathan Lachman
Founding Head of Operations at Thinking Machines Lab
Lachman builds the operating structures behind frontier AI labs. After leading special projects at OpenAI, he became Thinking Machines Lab's founding head of operations, bringing experience from national-security policy and scaling technology companies to the institutional side of advanced-model development.
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Founding Head of OperationsThinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines LabPreviously
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026
