Thinking Machines
Company www.thinkingmachines.com ● Covered in 15 stories + Follow ✴ AI Graph
Thinking Machines is an AI lab founded by Mira Murati, with recent reporting focused on fundraising talks for a reported $1 billion round at a valuation of at least $40 billion. The company has also been active on open-model releases, including the launch of Inkling, an open-weight multimodal model with a 1M-token context window and support for custom fine-tuning/deployment. Coverage during the period also notes co-founder Lilian Weng’s departure for OpenAI and co-founder Barret Zoph’s move to Google.
Updated 15 September 2026
Signals
3 stories (+0%)
Media momentum
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11 sources
Source diversity
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5 events
Release activity
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Model, product and open-source release events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
1 event
Funding signals
As of 17 Sep 2026 · Funding and acquisition events in the last 90 days whose coverage involves this entity.
Jan 2026 → Sep 2026
Coverage span
As of 17 Sep 2026 · First to most recent month of TLDRocket coverage of this entity.
Funding history
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$1 billion Late stage announced coverage →
Management
updated 2 Sep 2026- Stephanie Sy Founder/CEO
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Patricia Feria Lim
VP Of Operations
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Niek van Veen
VP For Growth
Recent changes
- Genevieve So left (was VP Data Platforms Delivery)
- Stephanie Sy CEO → Founder/CEO
Latest developments
2026
NVIDIA invests in Thinking Machines Funding
Accel invests in Thinking Machines Funding
Moonshot released Kimi K3, a large open-weight AI model Open source release
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model achieving frontier-class performance Open source release
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight large language model Model release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal mixture-of-experts model Open source release
Thinking Machines releases Inkling, an open-source multimodal language model with 975 billion parameters Open source release
- Thinking Machines in talks for $1B at $40B valuation as Mira Murati’s AI lab races ahead
- Accel reportedly in talks to lead $1B round for Thinking Machines at $40B valuation
- Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
- Latest open artifacts (#23): Laguna S2.1, Inkling, & Kimi K3 show the utility of open models on the Pareto frontier
- Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
- The U.S. wants to contain China’s AI. Silicon Valley keeps using it
- The Sequence Radar #897: Last Week in AI: China, Compression and the Open-Model Race
- AI #177 Part 1: Tip of the Iceberg
- I've got an Inkling
- Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight customizable multimodal model
- Welcome Inkling by Thinking Machines
- LWiAI Podcast #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
- Deep Learning Weekly: Issue 455
- LWiAI Podcast #232 - ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM
- Last Week in AI #333 - ChatGPT Ads, Zhipu+Huawei, Drama at Thinking Machines
Relationships
Products & technology
- Develops Inkling · 7 sources
- Integrated with DeepSeek-V3 · 1 source
Investment & ownership
People
- Mira Murati founded by this company · 2 sources
- Lilian Weng founded by this company · 1 source
- Barret Zoph founded by this company · 1 source
- Barret Zoph employed by this company · 1 source
Competition
- Anthropic competes with this company · 1 source