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16 Jul 2025, 11:24 AMThe funding round, which valued the startup at $12 billion, also saw participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD and Jane Street.
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Artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab, which was floated by OpenAI's former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has secured $2 billion in a seed funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
The funding round, which valued the startup at $12 billion, also saw participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD and Jane Street.
The massive seed funding round comes even as the startup is yet to reveal what it is working on yet.
In an X post Murati said that the startup aims to unveil its inaugural product in the "next coming months" and it will include “significant open source offering”.
The product will be useful for researchers and startups building custom AI models, she said.
“Soon, we’ll also share our best science to help the research community better understand frontier AI systems,” added Murati.
Murati gained widespread recognition in 2023 when she temporarily assumed the CEO role at OpenAI following Sam Altman's brief removal by the company's board.
After departing OpenAI in September last year, she established Thinking Machines in February, maintaining relative secrecy about the startup's specific objectives.
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