Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2 Billion to Build Collaborative General Intelligence

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has raised $2 billion in funding to accelerate the development of its collaborative general intelligence platform. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with backing from major players including NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, Jane Street and others.

“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,” Murati posted on X as she announced the funding.

The company, which emerged from stealth earlier this year, is working on an AI system that can function across modes of interaction and support natural human collaboration. It plans to release its first product within the next few months. According to Murati, the product will include a “significant open source component” and will be targeted at researchers and startups developing custom models.

Murati, who previously led the teams behind ChatGPT and DALL·E at OpenAI and briefly served as its interim CEO, described the lab’s mission as one that “empowers humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.” She also said the company would publish research to help the scientific community better understand frontier AI systems.

“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,” she said.