Nvidia and Mira Murati's Quiet Collaboration

At Carnegie Mellon, Mira Murati revealed that her new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has raised a jaw?dropping two billion dollars. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and heavyweights like Nvidia NVDA, AMD AMD, ServiceNow NOW and Cisco CSCO, the round underscores serious faith in her vision.

She shared on X that the lab is building a multimodal AI system that understands our world through conversation, images and collaborative workflows. Murati hinted that a first product will arrive in the coming months, complete with open?source tools for researchers and startups to customize.

Murati's track record speaks volumes. As OpenAI's CTO she helped launch ChatGPT, DALLE, Codex and Sora. Before that she was steering product at Tesla TSLA for the Model X. Now she's aiming to blend openness with enterprise?grade performance.

With prototypes just around the corner and one of AI's most respected leaders at the helm, Thinking Machines Lab could shake up both academic research and commercial AI development.