Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

Considering Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup based by OpenAI’s former chief expertise officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round, based on The Financial Times. The deal values the six-month-old startup at $10 billion. 

The corporate’s work stays unclear. The startup has leveraged Murati’s fame and different high-profile AI researchers who’ve joined the workforce to draw traders in what could possibly be the biggest seed spherical in historical past. In response to sources acquainted with the deal cited by the FT, Andreessen Horowitz led the spherical, with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Companions. 

Murati left OpenAI last September after main the event of a number of the firm’s most distinguished AI merchandise, together with ChatGPT, DALL-E, and voice mode. A number of of her former OpenAI colleagues have joined the brand new startup, together with co-founder John Schulman.

Murati is considered one of a handful of executives who left OpenAI after elevating issues about CEO Sam Altman’s management in 2023. When the board ousted Altman in November of that yr, Murati served as interim CEO earlier than Altman was rapidly reinstated.