Thinking Machines Lab, Inc., AI research and product, San Francisco, California, USA

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Website - thinkingmachines.ai

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linkedin.com/company/thinkingmachinesai

Thinking Machines Lab on Wikipedia

Co-founder and CEO - Mira Murati

CTO - Soumith Chintala

Co-founder - Lilian Weng

Co-founder and CSO - John Schulman

Myle Ott

Devendra Chaplot

Products and projects:

Tinker, training API for builders and developers

 

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Article "OpenAI Tightens Grip on High End of App Market; Murati’s Startup Gets a Name"

by Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati
January 29, 2025

 

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Article "OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati’s startup after brief stint at Anthropic"

by Sharon Goldman
February 6, 2025

 

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Article "Here are the OpenAI employees who are joining Mira Murati's new startup"

by Julia Hornstein
February 16, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati is launching her OpenAI rival: Thinking Machines Lab"
Thinking Machines Lab has hired a bunch of leaders from OpenAI.

by Kylie Robison
February 18, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati's new AI startup is set to be valued at $9 billion, sources say"

by Ben Bergman and Julia Hornstein
February 26, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers"

by Kyle Wiggers
April 8, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history."

by Ben Bergman
April 10, 2025

 

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Article "Thinking Machines Lab CEO Has Unusual Control in Andreessen-Led Deal"

by Stephanie Palazzolo and Natasha Mascarenhas
April 29, 2025

 

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Article "How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others"

by Stephanie Palazzolo, Erin Woo and Rocket Drew
June 23, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati's startup is dangling $500,000 salaries to win the AI arms race"

by Ben Bergman and Alex Nicoll
June 30, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12 billion in early-stage funding"

by Reuters
July 15, 2025

 

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Article "Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target"
Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup to discuss joining its new superintelligence lab. One received an offer for more than $1 billion.

by Kylie Robison
July 29, 2025

Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)

 

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Article "The $10 Billion Enigma of Mira Murati"
Former OpenAI colleagues flocked to join Murati at Thinking Machines Lab. So did investors. Now she just has to release a product.

by Stephanie Palazzolo
September 26, 2025

 

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Article "Murati’s Thinking Machines in Funding Talks at $50 Billion Value"

by Shirin Ghaffary and Edward Ludlow
November 13, 2025

 

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Article "Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI"

by Lucas Ropek
January 14, 2026

 

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Article "Thinking Machines Exodus Tests Investor Appetite for a $50 Billion Valuation"

by Erin Woo and Stephanie Palazzolo
January 17, 2026

 

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Article "The Messy Human Drama That Dealt a Blow to One of AI’s Hottest Startups"
After a relationship with a colleague, a Thinking Machines co-founder had his role changed. Months later, he was fired after a contentious meeting.

by Keach Hagey and Meghan Bobrowsky
January 20, 2026

 

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Article "The A.I. Start-Up Soap Opera Riveting Silicon Valley"
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

by Cade Metz, Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac
January 22, 2026