TOP 10 – AI STARTUPS

TOTAL FUNDING: US $ 2BN EMPLOYEES: 30 CEO: MIRA MURATI FOUNDED: 2025

Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati founded Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025, achieving a record-breaking US $ 2bn seed round at a US $ 12bn valuation by July. Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia and AMD led the funding round.

The company specialises in developing autonomous agentic AI systems for enterprise decision-making, emphasising human-AI collaboration and multimodal capabilities.

Furthermore, its recruitment includes numerous former OpenAI researchers and OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, highlighting the“ OpenAI diaspora” trend where expertise from pioneering institutions seeds new ventures.

Inside OpenAI, the Architect of ChatGPT, featuring Mira Murati

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Thinking Machines Lab

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