Thinking Machines
Founders
Mira Murati - Co-founder & CEO
John Schulman - Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Barrett Zoph - Co-founder & CTO
Lilian Weng - Co-founder
Andrew Tulloch - Co-founder
Luke Metz - Co-founder
Founded
2025
Stage Invested
Seed
Backed Since
2025
Status
Private
Lightspeed Team
Ravi Mhatre - Partner & Co-Founder
Lisa Han - Partner
James Alcorn - Partner

Thinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company. Our mission is to make artificial intelligence work for you by building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI serve their unique needs.

We are committed to open science through publications and code releases, while focusing on human-AI collaboration that serves diverse domains. Our approach embraces co-design of research and products to enable learning from real-world deployment and rapid iteration. This work requires three core foundations: state-of-the-art model intelligence, high-quality infrastructure, and advanced multimodal capabilities. We are committed to building models at the frontier of capabilities to deliver on this promise.

Thinking Machines