NVIDIA makes ‘significant investment’ in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab

The deal pairs one of the world’s most powerful chip companies with the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO, and the compute commitment alone runs to tens of billions of dollars.

When Mira Murati left OpenAI in September 2024, she declined to say much about what came next. What has become clear, roughly 18 months on, is that she was building something with serious ambitions,  and that she has found in Nvidia a partner prepared to back them at a scale that would have seemed extravagant even a year ago.

On March 10, 2026, NVIDIA and Thinking Machines Lab announced a multiyear strategic partnership under which Murati’s startup will deploy at least a gigawatt of NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin systems to train its models.

NVIDIA has also made what both companies describe as a “significant investment” in Thinking Machines, though neither has disclosed the figure ...