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Mira Murati

ROLE FORMER CTOAT OPENAIMENTIONS 12LAST SEEN JULY 24, 2026
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Former CTO of OpenAI who testified that Sam Altman was not trustworthy.

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product·All In·JULY 24, 2026

Mira Murati, her new model. Thinking Machines. They currently have the best American open source model. You know how it was trained? It was bootstrapped. It was distilled off a Chinese model, Kimi K2.5.

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hire·Lucinda Shen·JULY 21, 2026

Thinking Machines, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, dropped its first model (an open-weights one), last week.

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product·All In·JULY 18, 2026

Mira, because she just launched a very interesting platform that's based on open source... The value prop there is she's explicitly saying that, look, we're not frontier intelligence. We're just under that. But we're a platform for fine tuning these open models, which are much, much cheaper.

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hire·All In·JULY 18, 2026

Mira, because she just launched a very interesting platform that's based on open source... The value prop there is she's explicitly saying that, look, we're not frontier intelligence. We're just under that. But we're a platform for fine tuning these open models, which are much, much cheaper.

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product·Axios AI+·JULY 16, 2026

Launched Inkling, its first open-weight foundational model, targeting enterprise customization

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product·StrictlyVC·JULY 16, 2026

Thinking Machines Lab's launch of Inkling — an open-weight, 975B-parameter mixture-of-experts model — represents a deliberate bet that enterprise-adaptable AI will outperform one-size-fits-all offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

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funding·Axios AI+·JULY 16, 2026

Thinking Machines raised a record $2 billion seed round at a $12 billion valuation in 2025, before it had released a model or product.

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mention·Axios AI+·JULY 16, 2026

Thinking Machines is making a different bet than many AI labs: that enterprises ultimately care less about the smartest general-purpose model than one they can make their own.

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mention·StrictlyVC·JUNE 5, 2026

She was careful not to say too much.

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product·StrictlyVC·JUNE 5, 2026

The company's models are designed to process continuous streams of audio, text, and video in 200-millisecond intervals.

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mention·Axios AI+·MAY 18, 2026

His claims of honesty were undercut by testimony from former colleagues Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati.

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mention·Newcomer Newsletter·MAY 15, 2026

Five different people who'd testified in the case said he wasn't a trustworthy person (Helen Toner, Tasha McCauley, Ilya Sutskever, Mira Murati, and Musk).

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