Startup profile for Thinking Machines Lab: what they do, why they are interesting, stage (See coverage), industries, and links to our funding articles. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.

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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

Coverage

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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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Industries

Generalist Technology

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Last updated: 2026-07-24