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Ex-OpenAI Exec's Firm Lands Multi-Billion Dollar AI Deal
22 Apr
Summary
- Thinking Machines Lab signed a multi-billion dollar Google Cloud expansion.
- The deal includes access to Google's latest AI systems with Nvidia GB300 chips.
- The startup, founded by Mira Murati, launched its AI model creation tool Tinker.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, has entered into a significant multi-billion dollar agreement with Google Cloud. This expansion focuses on leveraging Google's advanced AI infrastructure, including systems equipped with Nvidia's new GB300 chips. The partnership is set to significantly boost the lab's capabilities in training and deploying large-scale AI models.
The agreement, valued in the single-digit billions, grants Thinking Machines access to cutting-edge AI systems and essential infrastructure services. This collaboration is particularly crucial for supporting the startup's reinforcement learning workloads, a key component of its proprietary AI model creation tool named Tinker. Tinker, launched in October, automates the development of custom frontier AI models.
This move positions Thinking Machines Lab among the early customers to utilize Google Cloud's GB300-powered systems, which promise a twofold increase in training and serving speeds over previous GPU generations. The lab's partnership is not exclusive, allowing for future collaborations with other cloud providers, but signifies Google's strategic effort to secure emerging AI ventures.
Mira Murati established Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025, shortly after departing her role as Chief Technologist at OpenAI. The company has since attracted substantial investment, raising $2 billion in a seed round at a $12 billion valuation, while maintaining a high degree of operational secrecy prior to this announcement.
