Luke Metz has returned to OpenAI after co-founding Thinking Machines Lab, WIRED reported. Metz returned alongside Barret Zoph and Sam Schoenholz and will work under Zoph.

Metz is known for research on learned optimizers—systems that learn how to train other neural networks—and post-training methods. He previously spent more than two years at OpenAI before helping launch Thinking Machines Lab.