Thinking Machines Lab, an emerging artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly aiming to raise an unprecedented $2 billion seed funding round, according to recent reports. If the round completes as planned, it could become one of the largest seed funding efforts in history, placing the company’s valuation at no less than $10 billion.
Although Thinking Machines Lab recently emerged from stealth and currently has neither products nor revenue, the startup’s ambitious funding goal appears justified by its top-tier talent. The company has already attracted numerous prominent researchers from the AI field, notably recruiting Bob McGrew, who recently served as OpenAI’s chief research officer, and Alec Radford, a former OpenAI researcher responsible for several groundbreaking innovations, as advisers.
Thinking Machines Lab’s stated goal is to develop sophisticated AI systems characterized by greater transparency, customizability, and broader general capability than those currently available in the market.
