Mira Murati, former director of OpenAi technology, is expanding her fundraising ambitions to think that the machine laboratory, her new highly anticipated generator company that has been the subject of interest and feverish speculation on the part of investors in Silicon Valley.
The company collects $ 2 billion in venture capital funding, said sources familiar with the case in Business Insider. This is the double of what Murati was looking for less than two months ago when Bi reported that it collected about 1 billion dollars to an evaluation of $ 9 billion.
It is not clear that the new evaluation that Murati seeks, although two people said that it was at least $ 10 billion.
The tour is still in progress and the details could change. A Murati spokesperson refused to comment.
The increase in the amount reflects an intense enthusiasm of investors for a generative AI and the fact that there is a very limited number of people with the expertise of Murati and the team it has brought together. It is also extremely expensive to train AI models and recruit and keep the best talents.
The former OPENAI research director, Bob McGrew, and researcher, Alec Radford, recently joined thinking machines.
Several of the other former colleagues in Murati work for thinking machines, including John Schulman, who co-directed the creation of Chatgpt; Jonathan Lachman, former special project manager in Openai; Barret Zoph, a Chatgpt trunk; And Alexander Kirillov, who worked in close collaboration with Murati in the vocal mode of Chatgpt.
Murati has already spent 6 and a half years old In Openai, where she was director of technology, working on the development of Chatgpt and other AI research initiatives. She was briefly named Interim CEO in November 2023 after the board of directors of Openai suddenly shot Sam AltmanA decision that has aroused unrest within the company. After the reintegration of Altman as CEO, Murati resumed his role as CTO.
It was a mystery that the machines of reflection will do exactly to distinguish themselves in a crowded and well -funded field which includes not only the Openai but also the anthropic, the XAI of Elon Musk and the Gemini of Google.
In a Blog post earlier this yearMurati positioned the startup as research on artificial intelligence and a product laboratory focused on the strengthening of the more accessible AI.
“To fill the gaps, we build the laboratory of thinking machines to make the AI systems more understood, customizable and generally capable,” said the post.
Even according to the norms of today’s sparkling AI market, $ 2 billion in funding for a startup of less than a year without a product are a gargantuan sum and would almost certainly be classified as one of the largest, if not the biggest, the seeds of history.
Last year, the co-founder of Openai, Ilya Sutskever, raised a seed lap of $ 1 billion for another AI, SSI startup.
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