Mira Murati’s Thought Machine Laboratory was estimated at $ 10 billion after $ 2 billion

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Openai’s former General Technology Officer Mira Murati, $ 2 billion for the start-up of the new artificial intelligence, a mysterious six-month company won $ 2 billion in an agreement worth $ 10 billion.

According to many people recently, many people familiar with the operation were one of the largest “seeds” or preliminary financing rounds in the history of Silicon Valley.

The Laboratory of San Francisco-based thinking machines, did not declare it, instead of using Murati’s name and prestige, he explained the familiar with the fondrusi.

Andreessen Horowitz, Sarah Guo attended the prisoner’s partners, who was attended by the agreement, he said.

Demonstrates a great investor appetite in fundraising AI Faith, Openai and anthropic, as well as Google and Meta’s vision, competing with great technological giants.

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People with knowledge about the issue, Orpenai CEO of Orphoin in November 2023 is one of the concerns about the leadership of Sam Altman in front of a failed board. Altman was called Interim CEO before reconstructing quickly.

Thought machines, co-founder Jonathan Lachman, former vice presidents Barret Zoph and Lilian Weng, co-founder John Schulman, also hired a number of past Openai employees.

“There are a real last group of the founders and there are incredibly intelligent people,” said an investor. “The team (Murati) was pulled together.”

At the same time, the company was besieged about what he works. In February, it aims to make “AI systems more widely understood, customizable and talented” without informing it.

According to high hidden nature, a number of funds for Murati to reach the agreement are more than one investor approaching. One of these people did not offer any information about a product or financial plans for Murati.

Another person said that thinking machines worked on “artificial general exploration” and work on a hypothetical point with the level of computers similar to people or superiority. But they added that the group was still a “strategy”.

After the financing tour, Murati, the unification of all other directors, the unification of all other directors, which provides a combination of all other critical decisions, he said he got acquainted with the transaction. The voting structure initially informed.

Product failure, investors have risen $ 2 billion in April for starting security, could not support openly old Ilya Sutskever $ 32 Billion Rating.

Thought Machine Laboratory refused to comment.