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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by red2awn » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:01 PM UTC

beauzero wrote: post #8

Does anybody know what they are building yet?

It is literally in the article:

> "We're excited that in the next couple months we will be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom model," CEO Murati said in a post on the X social media platform.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by Kranar » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:03 PM UTC

red2awn wrote: post #11

beauzero wrote: post #8

Does anybody know what they are building yet?

It is literally in the article: > "We're excited that in the next couple months we will be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom model," CEO Murati said in a post on the X social media platform.

What are they building?

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by qoez » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:06 PM UTC

I need to get around to betting against this on prediction markets soon.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by fanf2 » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:08 PM UTC

beauzero wrote: post #8

Does anybody know what they are building yet?

A a supercomputer with 65536 processors and a 16 dimensional hypercube interconnect, in a black monolithic enclosure with red blinkenlights.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by mdhb » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC

beauzero wrote: post #8

Does anybody know what they are building yet?

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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by k2enemy » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:15 PM UTC

eschneider wrote: post #2

So novel, they couldn't even come up with an original name.

I guess "random and pleasing" is appropriate for both CM-5s and LLMs.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by i_love_retros » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

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Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by throwoutway » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

wubrr wrote: post #10

beauzero wrote: post #8

Does anybody know what they are building yet?

hype

This is what I expect. Theyre Not hiring even engineers. By the time they have a strategy, plan, hire, and act on that plan they will be behind the curve, and force to use the $ to acquire someone who did.

Re: Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding

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Post by starik36 » Tue, Jul 15, 2025, 6:44 PM UTC

i_love_retros wrote: post #18

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You manage to turn any topic, any conversation into your pet issue, don't you.