After the two co-founders of Thinking Machines, Barret and Luke, left and then both returned to OpenAI, what story is really behind this move? The frequent talent shifts and repeated resource reallocations may seem like ordinary personnel changes, but they actually reflect the intense competition in the AI field. Industry insiders have joked that the personnel dramas in AI labs are comparable to Korean dramas, with the ups and downs of departures and returns rivaling any workplace soap opera—poaching, returning, and leaving again. Such cycles have become commonplace in the industry.