Pondering Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup based by OpenAIβs former chief expertise officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed spherical, based on The Monetary Occasions. The deal values the 6-month-old startup at $10 billion.Β
The corporateβs work stays unclear. The startup has leveraged Muratiβs popularity and different high-profile AI researchers who’ve joined the workforce to draw buyers in what could possibly be the biggest seed spherical in historical past. In line with sources accustomed to the deal cited by the FT, Andreessen Horowitz led the spherical, with participation from Sarah Guoβs Conviction Companions.Β
Murati left OpenAI final September after main the event of a few of the firmβs most outstanding AI merchandise, together with ChatGPT, DALL-E, and voice mode. A number of of her former OpenAI colleagues have joined the brand new startup, together with co-founder John Schulman.
Murati is one in all a handful of executives who left OpenAI after elevating considerations about CEO Sam Altmanβs management in 2023. When the board ousted Altman in November of that yr, Murati served as interim CEO earlier than Altman was shortly reinstated.
