Thinking Machines Lab, the brand new AI startup from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly trying to shut one of many largest seed rounds in historical past.
Business Insider reported on Thursday that Thinking Machines Lab has doubled the goal for its seed funding spherical to $2 billion. The spherical, ought to it shut based on plan, would worth the corporate at “at the least” $10 billion, per BI’s reporting.
Thinking Machines Lab solely just lately emerged from stealth, and has no product or income to talk of. What it does have — and what’s doubtless convincing traders to fork over money — is dozens of high-profile AI researchers in its ranks.
Just just lately, Bob McGrew, beforehand OpenAI’s chief analysis officer, and Alec Radford, a former OpenAI researcher behind lots of the firm’s extra transformative improvements, joined Thinking Machines Lab as advisers.
Thinking Machines Lab beforehand mentioned it intends to create AI programs which are “extra extensively understood, customizable, and customarily succesful” than these at present out there.
