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Mira Murati
Lately: Thinking Machines Lab as Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from OpenAI.
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Mira Murati to Thinking Machines Lab as Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Created the founder-scientist lab that later drew John Schulman away from Anthropic and became a magnet for OpenAI alumni.
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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.
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.