NVIDIA Backs Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with Compute and Capital

Nvidia is backing Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab with dedicated compute capacity and capital investment. Murati, who left OpenAI as CTO in 2025, founded the research lab to pursue fundamental AI research independent of commercial product pressures. Nvidia's support gives Thinking Machines access to cutting-edge GPU clusters for training large-scale models. The partnership aligns with Nvidia's strategy of supporting diverse AI research organizations. Murati's departure from OpenAI was one of the highest-profile exits in the AI industry, and Thinking Machines has attracted top researchers from multiple leading labs.