Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
The high-profile startup’s annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
The high-profile startup’s annual revenue run rate stands at over $100 million.
It’s the company’s first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
Right now, every AI model you’ve ever used works the same way. You talk, it listens. It responds, you listen. Thinking Machines is trying to change that by building a model that processes your input and generates a response at the same time, so it’s more like a phone call than a text chain.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia’s latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
The multi-year deal involves at least a gigawatt of compute power and also includes a strategic investment from Nvidia.
AI labs just can’t get their employees to stay put. Yesterday’s big AI news was the abrupt and seemingly acrimonious departure of three top executives at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines lab.
The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.
In a blog post shared Wednesday, Mira Murati’s startup offered a rare glimpse into some of work its doing to improve AI models.