Overview

• The $2B seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz gives Thinking Machines Lab a $12B valuation and ranks among Silicon Valley’s largest initial financings.
• Investors including Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD and Jane Street backed the company’s mission to develop responsible AI.
• Founded in February, the firm has recruited former OpenAI researchers John Schulman, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz to its core team.
• Murati said the first product will be unveiled in the next couple of months and feature a significant open source offering for researchers and startups.
• Thinking Machines Lab leverages Google Cloud for compute power and rebuffed acquisition talks with Meta earlier this year.