She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.

On Tuesday, Lilian Weng said she was stepping down from Thinking Machines Lab because the job was making her ill. On Wednesday, she was back at OpenAI.

Weng co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer. She is rejoining OpenAI to work on recursive self-improvement, or using AI models to build better AI models, The Information reported.

‘Beyond what my health can sustain’

Her exit note was stark. Weng said she had been ill more often in the past seven months than at any point in her life, and did not name a diagnosis. The “consistent stress and workload,” she wrote, had pushed her “beyond what my health can sustain physically,” Business Insider reported.

She said she tried to rest while the lab sprinted to ship Inkling, its first open-weight model, but felt guilt. She had weighed a narrower role and decided it...

Copyright of this story solely belongs to thenextweb.com. To see the full text click HERE