Date: July 16, 2025
The former OpenAI CTO’s ambitious AI venture is witnessing rapid growth, with an ambition to empower researchers and startups with cutting-edge solutions.
Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, has led her latest venture, Thinking Machines Lab, to impressive heights. In the recent funding round, it secured a whopping $2 billion, catapulting the AI startup’s valuation to $12 billion. The funding was backed by the prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Thinking Machines by Mira Murati is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup focused on creating innovative, customizable AI models. These models are precisely tailored to the needs of researchers and startups. Moreover, Murat’s AI venture aims to show how AI can be applied across multiple industries. Thinking Machines seeks to democratize the use of AI, powering even smaller enterprises to compete with larger tech giants.
Murati shared her excitement on the X platform, stating,
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.
— Mira Murati (@miramurati) July 15, 2025
We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
Thinking Machines’ latest funding round has garnered attention not only because of its massive valuation but also because of the high-profile participation from companies like Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, and Jane Street. The $2 billion raised will fuel the company’s aggressive expansion plans, which include scaling its product development, growing its talent pool, and accelerating its entry into new markets.
During her tenure at OpenAI, she played a key role in the development of groundbreaking technologies like GPT-3. Now, with Thinking Machines, she aims to continue her legacy of innovation, with an open-source approach, empowering smaller players in the AI ecosystem.
The tech world is closely watching Thinking Machines Lab unveil its first product . The inclusion of an open-source component could shake up the AI ecosystem, accelerating innovation. With $2 billion in the bank and a leader like Murati at the helm, the startup is poised to challenge giants in the field.
For now, the buzz on X and beyond suggests Thinking Machines Lab is more than a startup—it’s a signal of where AI is headed next.
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