Topic: thinking machines lab
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Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI advisers
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new AI venture, Thinking Machines Lab, has gained two new prominent advisers, Bob McGrew and Alec Radford.
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Mira Murati's AI Prioritizes Human Oversight
Mira Murati's new venture, Thinking Machines Lab, advocates for AI superintelligence that keeps humans central, contrasting with major AI firms building models to replace human effort with minimal involvement. Thinking Machines Lab previewed interaction models that natively understand human conve...
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Hits $10B Valuation with $2B Funding
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, reached a $10 billion valuation after raising $2 billion in seed funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Despite being only six months old, the startup attracted major investment and top AI talent, leveraging Murati's reputation for breakt...
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Mira Murati Returns to the Spotlight with Caution
Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO and now CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, gave her first major media interview in 18 months to strategically re-enter the spotlight as competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI dominate the AI landscape. She previewed Thinking Machines' new "interaction models" that p...
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OpenAI's Secret Mission to Unlock Thinking Machines
Key personnel moves between OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab highlight intense competition and conflicting narratives, including allegations of misconduct and concerns over potential information sharing. The talent shift reflects broader strategic disagreements at Thinking Machines regarding prod...
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Top 15 Startups Founded by OpenAI Alumni
A surge of entrepreneurial activity is occurring among former OpenAI employees, leading to the formation of numerous promising startups like Anthropic, Safe Superintelligence, and Thinking Machines Lab. Several high-profile startups, including Perplexity, xAI, and Adept AI Labs, have secured subs...
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Lilian Weng departs Thinking Machines, returns to OpenAI
Lilian Weng left Thinking Machines Lab due to health concerns from chronic stress and workload, but rejoined OpenAI the next day to work on recursive self-improvement, a high-stakes AI area. Her rapid return highlights the AI industry's intense pull, as Weng sought a more predictable role but acc...
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Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Exit to Rejoin OpenAI
Two cofounders of Thinking Machines Lab, Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, are rejoining OpenAI, marking a significant personnel gain for the company after recent departures. Barret Zoph was reportedly fired from the startup for alleged unethical conduct, specifically sharing confidential information, t...
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Meta Expands AI Recruiting Efforts to New Talent Pool
Meta is aggressively recruiting top AI talent with multi-year offers exceeding $1 billion, targeting researchers from startups like Thinking Machines Lab, though no acceptances have been confirmed yet. Meta disputes the reported scale of offers, calling them a "handful," while Zuckerberg personal...
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OpenAI’s Barret Zoph departs again after just five months
Barret Zoph, OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales, is leaving the company just five months after returning from his role as co-founder of rival startup Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph was brought back in January to lead OpenAI's enterprise push, a key focus as the company prioritizes core revenue str...
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Mira Murati Returns with AI Governance Warning and Surprise Product
Mira Murati, CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, made her first major media appearance in 18 months, ending a long period of public silence. She issued a pointed warning about AI governance, arguing that current oversight is dangerously slow and calling for proactive guardrails to close the gap between...
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AI Lab Talent Revolving Door Accelerates
The AI talent market is intensely competitive, with top labs aggressively recruiting and poaching executives, researchers, and engineers from each other, highlighting the critical value of specialized expertise. Talent movement is fluid and strategic, exemplified by senior staff moving between ri...
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Elon Musk testifies in high-stakes OpenAI trial
Elon Musk testified in a jury trial against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, marking the fourth legal action he has filed against the company; previous cases were dismissed or dropped. The lawsuit alleges OpenAI violated its founding mission to develop AGI for humanity's benefit...
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