Mira Murati spent six and a half years at OpenAI as its chief technology officer (CTO) before stepping down in September 2024. Now, her AI startup Thinking Machines Lab (TML), which was founded in February, closed a $2 billion seed round this week that values the startup at $12 billion, a spokesperson told TechCrunch.
TML has yet to launch any products, at least publicly. But on Tuesday, Murati said on X that the company would be sharing its first product “in the next couple of months.”
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