Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration

The OpenAI rival will focus on strong infrastructure, multimodality and human-AI collaboration (as opposed to purely agentic systems). Read More

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Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible

After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she's working on.
Wired - 2d
Mira Murati’s Startup Launches, Poaching at Least 20 OpenAI Employees From Her Former Workplace

Two-thirds of the staff at Thinking Machines Lab came from OpenAI, where the founder was once chief technology officer.
Inc. - 6h
Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati launches rival start-up

Thinking Machines Lab to focus on making artificial intelligence ‘more widely understood’
Financial Times - 2d
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer, Starts Her Own Company

Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up.
The New York Times - 1d
AI Startup Humane to Wind Down Wearable Pin Business

It’s selling its assets to HP for $116 million. It had raised about $241 million from OpenAI and others.
Inc. - 1d
Unity is working with Toyota on the next-gen human machine interface for cars

Unity was chosen by Toyota Motor to help it deliver a graphical user interface for Toyota’s next human-machine interface for cars.
VentureBeat - Feb. 6
Macron unveils plans for €109bn of AI investment in France

French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman
Financial Times - Feb. 10

OpenAI’s ChatGPT explodes to 400M weekly users, with GPT-5 on the way

OpenAI's ChatGPT reaches 400M weekly users and doubles enterprise adoption to 2M+ users, signaling major AI shift as company prepares GPT-5 launch amid growing competition from DeepSeek and xAI.
VentureBeat - 4h
Medical training’s AI leap: How agentic RAG, open-weight LLMs and real-time case insights are shaping a new generation of doctors at NYU Langone

NYU Langone has built an LLM research companion and medical advisor, and is pioneering what it calls AI-driven “precision medical education."
VentureBeat - 4h
Identity is the breaking point — get it right or zero trust fails

It’s on security leaders to shift their security strategies to better fight against identity-driven attacks.
VentureBeat - 6h
Milliseconds to breach: How patch automation closes attackers’ fastest loophole

Patching shouldn't be the action item teams get to when other higher-priority tasks are completed. It's core to keeping a business alive.
VentureBeat - 6h
AI vs. endpoint attacks: What security leaders must know to stay ahead

Why enterprises must embrace an AI-first strategy that unifies endpoint, identity and network security within a zero-trust framework.
VentureBeat - 6h