Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI. Their flagship model is Inkling, an open weights large language model. Source
- Category
- AI
- Headquarters
- United States
- Founded
- 2025
Thinking Machines Lab across Glyph
- Awards
- Funding rounds: Funding rounds
- AI labs
- Leadership moves: 5 leaders, 11 moves
- Paydays: Pay schedule
- Predictions
- Quotes: 7 quotes
- Pay ranges
- Official socials
- Hiring: 13 open roles
Thinking Machines Lab across Glyph: timeline
- Thinking Machines Lab: leaders John Schulman (Chief Scientist); Mira Murati (Chief Executive Officer and Founde (Labs)
- Official Careers: jobs.ashbyhq.com/ThinkingMachines (Socials)
- Official RSS: thinkingmachines.ai/index.xml (Socials)
- Official Blog: thinkingmachines.ai/blog (Socials)
- Official YouTube: @thinkymachines (Socials)
- Official LinkedIn: thinkingmachinesai (Socials)
- Official X: @thinkymachines (Socials)
- Thinking Machines Lab: flagship model (Labs)
- 13 open roles posted (Titles)
- Thinking Machines Lab: leaders John Schulman (Chief Scientist); Mira Murati (Chief Executive Officer and founde (Labs)
- Thinking Machines Lab: funding rounds https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mira-muratis-thinking-machines-lab-is-worth-12 (Labs)
- John Schulman: So I would expect that we’re nowhere near the ceiling of how well you can do research., Dwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (Quotes)
- John Schulman: Right now, you don’t get explosive growth in capabilities because you still get bottlenecked enough when you’re trying to do research and en, Dwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (Quotes)
- John Schulman: In fact, I remember in the early OpenAI days having the intuition that just minimizing log loss wasn’t going to get you to intelligence., Dwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (Quotes)
- John Schulman: Basically anything that can be learned through RL can be distilled very easily, because it’s a small number of bits., Dwarkesh Podcast: AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement (Quotes)
- 12 open roles posted (Titles)
- Lilian Weng left (Co-founder) (Leaders)
- Weiyao Wang joined as Other (Leaders)
- Forbes AI 50 2026 (Awards)
- Soumith Chintala joined as CTO, CTO (Leaders)
35 events in all: the full list as JSON.