Nvidia invests in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati, then-chief technology officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech Live Conference on October 17, 2023 in Laguna Beach, California.
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Nvidia The companies have made a “significant investment” in Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Laboratory as part of a new multi-year strategic partnership. announced on Tuesday.
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI startup that Murati founded last year and aims to create “more comprehensive, customizable, and generally capable” AI systems, according to its own report. website. The company has kept its work largely secret and shared few details about its long-term goals.
Nvidia has been one of the biggest winners of the AI boom because it produces the graphics processing units needed to train models and run large workloads. It has invested in a number of leading AI startups in recent years, including OpenAI and Anthropic as customers.
Murati is OpenAI’s former chief technology officer and served as the company’s interim CEO when Sam Altman was briefly ousted in 2023. He left OpenAI the following year and has remained largely out of the public eye ever since.
As part of its partnership with Nvidia, Thinking Machines Lab has also agreed to deploy at least one gigawatt of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin systems, the chipmaker’s most advanced offering expected to launch in the second half of the year.
The companies declined to share additional details about the size of Nvidia’s investment.
“Thinking Machines has assembled a world-class team to advance the frontiers of artificial intelligence,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. he said. “We are excited to partner with Thinking Machines to realize their exciting vision for the future of artificial intelligence.”
Startup published this first productIn October, ., known as Tinker, is an application programming interface that allows researchers and developers to fine-tune AI models. Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion from investors in July.
This year, Murati was named to CNBC’s third annual Changemakers list.
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