Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati Raises $2 Billion At $12 Billion Valuation From Jane Street, A16Z, Nvidia

She was in charge of the teams that developed ChatGPT and DALL·E.  

She's 37 years old. 

I hate her.

From CNBC, July 15:

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2 billion for new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab

  • Mira Murati said that her new AI startup Thinking Machines Lab has raised $2 billion in fresh capital.
  • Murati previously worked as the chief technology officer of OpenAI, and she was named interim CEO of OpenAI after Sam Altman was briefly ousted.
  • Thinking Machines will announce its first product “in the next couple months,” Murati said. 

Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI, said Tuesday that her artificial intelligence startup Thinking Machines Lab has raised $2 billion in fresh capital and will announce its first product “in the next couple months.”

Murati rocketed into the spotlight in 2023 when she was named interim CEO of OpenAI after Sam Altman was briefly ousted by the company’s board.

She left OpenAI in September and launched Thinking Machines in February, though she has not shared many details about the startup publicly.

In her first post on X since February, Murati said Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z led Thinking Machines’ funding round. Additional investors included Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO and Jane Street....

....MUCH MORE

I don't really hate her. But I do wonder how much Zuckerberg offered her to come to META. 

$500 million? A billion? 

And I wonder what she said when she turned him down.