Thinking Machines

Scalable Infrastructure

Investment:
Seed
Year:
2025
Location:
Bay Area
Founders:
Mira Murati; John Schulman; Barrett Zoph; Lilian Weng; Andrew Tulloch; Luke Metz

Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research startup developing advanced multimodal systems. The team is building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals.

The founding team is made up of scientists, engineers and builders who’ve created some of the most widely used AI products, including ChatGPT and Character.ai, open-weights models like Mistral, as well as popular open source projects like PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, Fairseq, and Segment Anything.