Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief’s Startup
Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief’s Startup
Publish Date: 2026-03-11 00:06:00
Source Domain: www.thedailyupside.com
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Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has exited ‘stealth’ mode following a significant multiyear strategic partnership with Nvidia.
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The startup secured a considerable $2 billion in funding at a $12 billion valuation just five months after its inception, attracting notable investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia.
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Thinking Machines’ first product, Tinker, offers automation for fine-tuning large language models and can integrate with open-source models from Meta and Alibaba.
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The partnership with Nvidia includes a “significant investment” and the deployment of at least 1 gigawatt of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin hardware, signaling ambitious plans to compete in the frontier AI space against companies like Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
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Despite its rapid growth, Thinking Machines has experienced executive changes, including the departures of co-founder Andrew Tulloch and re-joinings of Barret Zopf and Luke Metz to OpenAI.
