Mira Murati, a former OpenAI executive, briefly served as interim CEO before launching Thinking Machines Lab, an innovative A.I. startup. The company, which aims to enhance collaborative general intelligence, recently secured an impressive $2 billion in seed funding from major investors including Nvidia and AMD, valuing it at $12 billion. Murati emphasizes that their multimodal A.I. will facilitate natural interactions through conversation and sight, and aims to empower humanity. The team includes talent from Google, Meta, and OpenAI, with former leaders like John Schulman on board. Anticipating a product launch soon, Thinking Machines Lab plans to emphasize open-source resources to support researchers and startups. This startup is part of a trend where former OpenAI executives are creating influential ventures, with others like Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence and Anthropic emerging as key players in the A.I. landscape. Murati aims to foster equitable A.I. access while advancing frontier research in the field.
