Workshop Labs is an AI research company that was founded as a public benefit corporation with a mission to make people irreplaceable through AI built to work for people rather than replace them. On April 13, 2026, Workshop Labs announced it was joining Thinking Machines, with that company hiring co-founders Rudolf Laine and Luke Drago and acquiring its technology. Workshop Labs's Twitter Score is 13 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #71,749 among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Workshop Labs was founded by Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine. The company's research direction grew out of an essay series called The Intelligence Curse, which the founders wrote about the economics of transformative AI and the risk of human economic disempowerment. That intellectual foundation shaped the company's focus on user-aligned models designed to augment rather than automate people out of economic relevance.
Workshop Labs was backed by Character Capital, OVO Fund, Juniper Ventures, Seldon Lab, Brendan McCord, Brad Burnham, and Matt McIlwain. The account has published 57 posts and has been mentioned by 1 accounts a total of 1 times.
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