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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round


Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says that her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, was valued at $12 billion in its seed round.

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch. It’s unclear if Murati means that Thinking Machines Lab will release an open AI model, as some of OpenAI’s other competitors have done to undercut the ChatGPT-maker’s offerings. Since Murati launched her venture, Thinking Machines Lab has attracted some of her former coworkers at OpenAI, including John Schulman, Barret Zoph, and Luke Metz.

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