Thinking Machines Lab, the brand new AI startup from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly making an attempt to shut one of many largest seed rounds in historical past.
Enterprise Insider reported on Thursday that Pondering Machines Lab has doubled the target for its seed funding round to $2 billion. The spherical, ought to it shut in response to plan, would worth the corporate at “at the least” $10 billion, per Enterprise Insider’s reporting.
Pondering Machines Lab solely not too long ago emerged from stealth and has no product or income to talk of. What it does have — and what’s probably convincing buyers to fork over money — is dozens of high-profile AI researchers in its ranks.
Only in the near past, Bob McGrew, beforehand OpenAI’s chief analysis officer, and Alec Radford, a former OpenAI researcher behind most of the firm’s extra transformative improvements, joined Pondering Machines Lab as advisers.
Pondering Machines Lab beforehand stated it intends to create AI techniques which might be “extra extensively understood, customizable, and usually succesful” than these at the moment out there.