Company
Thinking Machines Lab
American artificial intelligence company
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI. Their flagship model is Inkling, an open weights large language model.
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“Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI.”
Named in 3 pieces
Hiring & Talent
The Founder-Scientist Labs
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and a cluster of scientist-led startups command double-digit-billion valuations before shipping a product, and the same pay war running through Big Tech now reaches their founding teams too.
Capital & Markets
The 2026 Megaround League Table
Nine confirmed 2026 financings past $500 million reveal a lopsided race, where Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Ali Ghodsi command sums once reserved for national infrastructure while founder-scientist labs stall.
Hiring & Talent
The Biggest AI Hires of 2025
Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.