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Nvidia and Jane Street back Mira Murati’s AI start-up in latest fundraising
SILICON VALLEY, JUL 15 – The $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz highlights strong investor confidence in the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati.
- Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launched Thinking Machines Lab in February, and this week the AI startup secured $2 billion in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz in the United States.
- Murati left OpenAI in September 2024 after six and a half years, and her new AI startup emerged amidst strong competition from other leading AI labs.
- Thinking Machines Lab is developing multimodal AI that interacts naturally through conversation and sight, planning to release its first product with a significant open source component soon.
- Thinking Machines Lab secured $2 billion in seed funding from a group of investors spearheaded by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Nvidia, AMD, Cisco, ServiceNow, Accel, and Jane Street, resulting in a valuation of $12 billion for the startup.
- This massive funding reflects investor confidence in Thinking Machines Lab's mission to empower humanity through collaborative general intelligence and signals an intensifying race in AI development.
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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2B for new AI startup Thinking Machines at $12B valuation - Tech Startups
It hasn’t even been six months since Mira Murati left OpenAI. Now, she’s back in the spotlight with a jaw-dropping $2 billion raise for her new AI startup, Thinking Machines. The funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz, values the company […] The post Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2B for new AI startup Thinking Machines at $12B valuation first appeared on Tech Startups.
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