Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’

Mira Murati, founder of AI startup Thinking Machines and former chief technology officer of OpenAI, today announced a new round of $2 billion in venture funding, and stated that her company’s first product will launch in the coming months and will include a “significant open source component…useful for researchers and startups developing custom models.”

The news is exciting for all those awaiting Murati’s new venture since she exited OpenAI in September 2024 as part of a wave of high-profile researcher and leadership departures, and seems to come at an opportune time given her former employer OpenAI’s recent announcement that its own forthcoming open source frontier AI model — still unnamed — would be delayed.

As Murati wrote on X:

“Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.

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