{"id":194680,"date":"2026-03-11T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/nvidia-partnership-hints-at-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:25:11","slug":"nvidia-partnership-hints-at-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/nvidia-partnership-hints-at-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief\u2019s Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-partnership-reveals-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/\">Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief\u2019s Startup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-partnership-reveals-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/\">https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-partnership-reveals-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-11 00:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thedailyupside.com\">www.thedailyupside.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Thinking Machines Lab, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has exited &#8216;stealth&#8217; mode following a significant multiyear strategic partnership with Nvidia.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Thinking Machines&#8217; first product, Tinker, offers automation for fine-tuning large language models and can integrate with open-source models from Meta and Alibaba.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The partnership with Nvidia includes a &#8220;significant investment&#8221; and the deployment of at least 1 gigawatt of Nvidia&#8217;s Vera Rubin hardware, signaling ambitious plans to compete in the frontier AI space against companies like Anthropic, Google, and Meta.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief\u2019s Startup https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-partnership-reveals-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/upiphotosthree001723-scaled-e1773177524114.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194682,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194680\/revisions\/194682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}