The Thinking Machines workshop, the start of the AI founded by former Openai chief technology official Mira Murati, officially closed a $ 2 billion seed, led by Andreessen Horowitz on Monday, a company spokesman told TechCrunch.
The deal, which includes the participation of Nvidia, Accel, Servicenow, Cisco, AMD and Jane Street, estimates the start of $ 12 billion, the spokesman said.
Several stores were reported in June that the thought machinery was Close to the closure of this $ 2 billion funding round in a $ 10 billion valuationBut, obviously, this valuation has been launched in the last month.
The deal marks one of the largest rounds of seeds – or first rounds of funding – in the history of Silicon Valley, which represents the huge appetite of investors to support the promising new AI laboratories. The Machines thinking laboratory is less than a year and has not yet revealed what works.
However, Murati peeling the curtain in the company’s first product a little bit in a position on X Tuesday, arguing that the start plans to reveal its work in the “next two months” and will include a “significant open source offer”. Murati also said that the product would be useful for researchers and newly established companies that create custom AI models.
“Soon, we will also share our best science to help the research community better understand AI border systems,” Murati said.
It is not clear whether Murati means that the machine thinking laboratory will release an open AI model, as some of the other Openai competitors did to downplay the tenders of the Chatgpt manufacturer. A spokesman for the Maching Machines Laboratory refused to comment further.
Since Murati started her business, The Thinking Machines Lab has attracted some of her former Openai colleagues, such as John Schulman, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz. Murati says her company is currently trying to staff, especially for people with a history of “building successful products driven by AI from the ground”, according to The Boot.
Reportedly Meta was held conversations to obtain a thinking machinery laboratory In recent months to enhance its supervision efforts, but they did not make a final offer.
The Thinking Machines Lab is one of the handful of newly formed businesses that investors believe is a legitimate threat to guidance of AI models today, such as Openai, Anthropic and Google Deepmind.
With billions of funding, Murati can have enough war breasts to train AI Frontier models. Laboratory of thought machinery previously Was made agreement with Google Cloud to supply AI models.
Sure, The Thinking Machines Lab has a worrying battle to cover other AI laboratories. Banking is possible for new research discoveries to distinguish it. However, this is an increasingly difficult task, as Meta, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and Openai are investing billions in their own research teams.
