Thinking Machines Lab, the six-month-old AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, today closed a $2 billion seed round that places the stealth startup’s valuation at $10 billion.
Andreessen Horowitz led the financing with participation from Sarah Guo’s Conviction Partners and a group of limited partners. Murati, who oversaw ChatGPT, DALL-E and voice mode at OpenAI and briefly served as its interim chief executive, has recruited co-founder John Schulman and several ex-OpenAI researchers to build new frontier models.
The company has not disclosed product details, saying only that it is “advancing general-purpose reasoning systems.” Proceeds will fund compute, talent expansion and secure facilities.
