- Joined
- Nov 2023
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- RampSales
- Now
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Olympiads
- IOI gold 2008–2010IOI 2008GoldIOI 2009GoldIOI 2010Gold
- Joined Thinking Machines Lab in March 2026; announced: "I joined @thinkymachines to work with @johnschulman2, @miramurati, @soumithchintala, @dchaplot, @alexgartrell, and others on the future of collaborative AI!" He has since posted about Tinker recipes and the Inkling model releases.Mar 11, 2026I joined @thinkymachines to work with @johnschulman2, @miramurati, @soumithchintala, @dchaplot, @alexgartrell, and others on the future of collaborative AI! And I can confirm that we do have 45 lb weights. If you're interested in training weights and/or Tinkering with us, join us! https://t.co/4JuXQdCybv
- Co-founded Sequence Holdings in 2025 with Alexander (Alex) Rubin and Michael Lee, a permanent holding company bringing AI and engineering to service businesses; it raised a $75M Series A in 2026.Mar 2026
- Launch-day post on Devin (March 12, 2024), quoted verbatim: "Today I can finally share Devin, the first AI software engineer, built by our team at @cognition_labs. Devin is capable of building apps end to end, finding bug..." (snippet as indexed).Mar 12, 2024
- On Devin's SWE-bench result, verbatim: "Excited to share more details on our state of the art SWE-bench result. We have some analysis of the results plus examples of the code edits Devin made. Check them out!"Mar 15, 2024Excited to share more details on our state of the art SWE-bench result. We have some analysis of the results plus examples of the code edits Devin made. Check them out!
- Stayed on as Founding Team and Advisor at Cognition (from 2023) after leaving for Sequence Holdings in 2025 and Thinking Machines Lab in 2026, per LinkedIn.2023
- Won ICPC World Finals silver (2012, North America Champion) for Harvard with teammates Spencer Liang '12 and Alex Zhai '12.May 2012
- IOI contestant for the USA; the IOI stats database lists 3 gold medals (2008-2010) on his profile.2010
- Business Insider (Feb 2026) reported that Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab hired him as a three-time IOI gold medalist and founding member of Cognition, amid executive departures there.Feb 2026
- Open source: GitHub nealwu (1.6k followers) hosts competitive-programming (contest library code that others fork, e.g. conlacda/neal-wu-cp-lib), KillNewsFeed (Chrome extension that kills Facebook's News Feed, profiled by the NYT in 2014), BugChess and Twine forks. He is a member of the thinking-machines-lab GitHub org and contributes to tinker-cookbook (e.g. the forecasting recipe, PR #931).2026
- On Devin 2.0 / agent-native IDE, verbatim: "The future of software engineering is coming: try the new agent-native IDE where you can parallelize your tasks and code along with Devin! Also now available for only $20"Apr 3, 2025The future of software engineering is coming: try the new agent-native IDE where you can parallelize your tasks and code along with Devin! Also now available for only $20
- On Devin GA, verbatim: "It's here: Devin is now generally available!"Dec 10, 2024It's here: Devin is now generally available!
- On Cognition's o1 evaluation, verbatim: "Check out our findings from OpenAI's powerful new 'o1' reasoning models at Cognition:"Sep 12, 2024Check out our findings from OpenAI’s powerful new ‘o1’ reasoning models at Cognition:
Helping Cognition do whatever it takes to succeed: engineering, sales / customer success, recruiting, etc.
Drove up customer activation and usage by figuring out why accounts were getting stuck, and built tooling for the sales team to get customers obsessed with using Ramp
Backend product engineering
Powered research at Brain, Google's AI research team
Developed cloud desktop technology, and continued building out the tech at Box after acquisition
Head Teaching Fellow for CS124, Intro to Algorithms (150 students)
Head Teaching Fellow for CS124 - Intro to Algorithms in Spring 2014 Teaching Fellow for CS50 - Intro to CS in Fall 2011 and CS124 in Spring 2012
We're pushing on efficiency and releasing our next model Inkling-Small, with similar performance to Inkling at just over a quarter of the size. If you have a Tinker account you can test it out today in the new Tinker playground: https://t.co/qgXr1DFMT3
Today we're sharing Inkling, our first model release from @thinkymachines! Was inspiring to see all the work over many months across the whole team to get here. You can try it out on @tinkerapi now!
What if working with AI felt less like a chat box and more like talking to another person? Today we're sharing a preview of how we think about humans and AI collaborating together at @thinkymachines, with full-duplex models that handle interactivity natively. It's still early, and we have a lot more to do ahead of us!
In-depth peek into the early days :) proud of you @ScottWu46
@alexkaplan0 @cognition Congrats Alex!!
I joined @thinkymachines to work with @johnschulman2, @miramurati, @soumithchintala, @dchaplot, @alexgartrell, and others on the future of collaborative AI! And I can confirm that we do have 45 lb weights. If you're interested in training weights and/or Tinkering with us, join us! https://t.co/4JuXQdCybv
I joined Thinking Machines Lab to work with John Schulman, Mira Murati, Soumith Chintala, Devendra Chaplot, Alex Gartrell, and others on the future of collaborative AI! And I can confirm that we do have 45 lb weights. If you're interested in training weights and/or Tinkering with us, join us! https:// https://lnkd.in/guPJQAJH
The future of software engineering is coming: try the new agent-native IDE where you can parallelize your tasks and code along with Devin! Also now available for only $20
@alexkaplan0 @DevinAI @cognition_labs Don’t forget @ecnerwala!
It's here: Devin is now generally available!
Check out our findings from OpenAI’s powerful new ‘o1’ reasoning models at Cognition:
Excited to share more details on our state of the art SWE-bench result. We have some analysis of the results plus examples of the code edits Devin made. Check them out!
