Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Signs Multibillion-Dollar Google Cloud Deal for GB300 Chips

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Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA's latest GB300 chips. The deal expands a 2025 relationship and supports Thinking Machines' reinforcement-learning-heavy Tinker product. The startup raised a $2B seed at $12B valuation and is among the first Google Cloud customers to access GB300 systems offering 2x training speed improvements.