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Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is Mira Murati's AI research company building multimodal models with an open-science ethos.
Stage
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Status
private
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Why Thinking Machines Lab is interesting
Largest seed round in VC history ($2B) for ex-OpenAI CTO's lab — a16z led before first product ship, signaling frontier-model talent wars.
Key facts
- Seed (Jul 2025): ~$2B led by a16z at $12B valuation — Reuters, TechCrunch
- Mira Murati's AI lab; Nvidia, Accel, AMD, Cisco among participants (not in VCT directory)
- Co-investors: no additional institutional investors disclosed in public sources reviewed 2026-07-24
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Last updated: 2026-07-24