Thinking Machines Lab Raises a Record $2 Billion, Announces Cofounders

Thinking Machines LAB, an artificial intelligence company founded by high -level researchers who fled Openai, has collected a record seed cycle of $ 2 billion which values the emerging company at $ 12 billion.

The financing tour was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Nvidia, Accel, Cisco and AMD – among others. The gigantic investment reflects the ultra -competitive race to build advanced AI systems, as well as the premium placed on AI talents at the top. It is the largest round of financing of the seeds in history.

Reflection machines are led by CEO Mira Murati, who resigned as OPENAI technology director last September. His co -founders are John Schulman, a computer scientist who helped build Chatgpt; Barrett Zoph, ex-vice president of research in Openai; Lilian Weng, who worked on the safety and robotics of AI in the company; Andrew Tulloch, who worked on pre-training and reasoning; And Luke Metz, who worked on post-training in Openai. The Thinking machine laboratory confirmed that the team wired on Tuesday, the first time it did it publicly.

Murati said in an article on X Tuesday that Thinking Machines is developing a multimodal AI that would interact with humans “by conversation, through sight, through the disorderly manner that we collaborate”. She added that the company will publish its first product in the coming months, noting that the version “will include an important open source component and will be useful for researchers and startups that develop personalized models”. She said the company would also publish research “to help the research community better understand the border AI systems”.

In just over a decade, AI has gone from a research stir in investments, recruitment and disagreement high with high and high drama issues.

The drama has reached a new level in recent months when discussions on IA societies like Openai approaching AI of human or superhuman level have intensified. (Thinking Machines Lab has been silent on this front – at least so far).

The meta-PDG, Mark Zuckerberg, also shaken the industry by attracting the best researchers to a new superintendent laboratory with promises of remuneration for several million dollars. Zuckerberg has managed to bring several OpenAi researchers to the new project. Given their importance and expertise, the co -founders of the machines in thought are very likely to have been approached. However, the company refused to comment on the issue.