Mira Murati
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Founded Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati is identified in the coverage as the former CTO of OpenAI and, in the related leadership update, as Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI. She is also named as the founder of the AI startup Thinking Machines, which recently released the open-weights multimodal model Inkling and has been reported to be in discussions for a roughly $1 billion funding round at a valuation of at least $40 billion. The reporting also places Thinking Machines’ current momentum on the Inkling model and compute partnerships as it seeks investment.
Updated 12 September 2026
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Latest developments
Q3 2026
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights multimodal model under Apache 2.0 license Open source release
Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight AI model 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
- Inkling: Our open-weights model
- Mira Murati's AI Startup Releases First Model in Bid to Loosen AI Giants' Grip
- Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model
Q4 2023
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People
- Employed by OpenAI · 2 sources
- Founded by Thinking Machines · 2 sources
- Founded by Thinking Machines Lab · 1 source
- Thinking Machines Lab founded by this person · 1 source