Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just announced a $2B raise with plans to share its first product in a “couple of months.” She said the co is building multimodal AI with a major open source component for teams developing custom models
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s AI Startup Unveils First Product
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AI NEWS: Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s secretive AI startup is FINALLY set to unveil its first product Plus, more news from Mistral, Runway, Willow, and orchids. Here's everything you need to know:
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Celebrating OpenAI API’s 5th Anniversary and the Future of AI Agents
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A little something for my French-speaking followers this Bastille Day week Loved talking with @SebCouasnon on his podcast Tech 45’ about the 5th anniversary of the @OpenAI API, the quiet engine behind the AI startup boom, and where we’re headed with agents.
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Compute, Talent, and Product Differentiation in AI Deployment
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Agree on compute and power. Talent isn’t just names on a roster. It matters how inspired and empowered those people are. And, they still have to figure out how they use the model. For some new product? How that compete with what already exists without being 10x better? Or
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AI Infrastructure and Team Inspiration Key to Competitive Advantage
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Team that is actually inspired to do their best work. Which money alone can’t buy. Besides that it’s all about AI infra and some unique angle on product. I don’t see any path to them catching up in a meaningful way. If I could put odds on it, I’d say less than 1% chance they
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AI Textbooks Oversimplify Building Billion Dollar Startups
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AI textbooks leave doing a $1B startup as an exercise for the reader.
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AI Researcher Startups Never Fail Due to Acquihire Option
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No startup founded by AI researchers ever fails, because in the worst case it gets acquihired.
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Zuckerberg’s Acquisition Strategy: Instagram and Oculus Lessons
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He's never done anything like this. He acquired Instagram(a photo app). Very different than foundational models. And the founders left because they disagreed with Zuck. Then he acquired Oculus, and fired the founder, @PalmerLuckey
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Apollo Acquired by Liquid AI: On-Device Models Expansion
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Excited to share that Apollo has been acquired by Liquid AI.
— Aaron Ng (@localghost) 15 juillet 2025
Expect more models, improvements, and powerful features you've never seen before with on-device models. pic.twitter.com/FxrtRazj4iExcited to share that Apollo has been acquired by Liquid AI. Expect more models, improvements, and powerful features you've never seen before with on-device models.
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Thinking Machines Lab launches with $2B funding, now hiring
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Yes – 🥳 Thinky starts hiring again: thinkingmachines.paperform.c… Mira Murati (@miramurati) Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world – through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're excited that in the next couple months we’ll be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom models. Soon, we’ll also share our best science to help the research community better understand frontier AI systems. To accelerate our progress, we’re happy to confirm that we’ve raised $2B led by a16z with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, Jane Street and more who share our mission. We’re always looking for extraordinary talent that learns by doing, turning research into useful things. We believe AI should serve as an extension of individual agency and, in the spirit of freedom, be distributed as widely and equitably as possible. We hope this vision resonates with those who share our commitment to advancing the field. If so, join us. thinkingmachines.paperform.c… — https://nitter.net/miramurati/status/1945166365834535247#m
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