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Nvidia Partnership Hints at Big Ambitions for Former OpenAI Tech Chief\u2019s Startup<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thedailyupside.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/nvidia-partnership-reveals-big-ambitions-for-former-openai-tech-chiefs-startup\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-11 00:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.thedailyupside.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence startup led by OpenAI\u2019s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has just traded its \u2018stealth\u2019 status for a seat at the big table.<\/p>\n

The startup struck a multiyear strategic partnership with Nvidia, which also made a \u201csignificant investment,\u201d the two announced Tuesday. The terms, however vague, signal ambitions to shake up frontier AI.<\/p>\n

You Said Watt?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Founded as a public benefit corporation in February 2025 by OpenAI veterans, Thinking Machines generated considerable buzz (and jealousy, at least from this wallet) when it raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation just five months later. Joining the seed round were A-list investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, AMD and Cisco, for whom most pitch decks serve as recycling material. The hype was on.<\/p>\n

Thinking Machines emerged from stealth mode in October with its first and so far only product, Tinker, a tool that automates much of the work involved in fine-tuning large language models. Tinker works with Meta\u2019s Llama and Alibaba\u2019s Qwen, both of which are open source, allowing users to train them to perform certain specialized tasks: making their own custom versions of a frontier model, in short. Beyond that, however, Thinking Machines has kept mum about other plans. Tuesday\u2019s deal suggests, at the very least, they aren\u2019t small:<\/p>\n