Thinking Machines
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company dedicated to making frontier AI systems more understandable, customizable, and accessible through open science and human-AI collaboration.
At a Glance
- Enterprise Developers
- Research Organizations
- Scientific Labs
- AI Engineering Teams
AI Tools by Thinking Machines
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Tinker
Distributed LLM Training API
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Latest News
Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Gigawatt Compute Partnership
Co-founders Barret Zoph and Luke Metz Depart Thinking Machines Lab to Rejoin OpenAI
Thinking Machines Makes its Tinker AI Fine-Tuning Service Generally Available
Thinking Machines in Talks for New Funding Round at $50 Billion Valuation
Products & Services
A cloud-based API and toolkit designed to simplify and accelerate the fine-tuning of open-source AI models like Mistral and Llama.
Developing proprietary, frontier-level multimodal models for science, programming, and general reasoning.
Market Position
Positioned as a more open, research-centric competitor to OpenAI and Anthropic, focusing on providing tools (Tinker) to help users adapt open-source models rather than just offering closed API models.
Leadership
Founders
Mira Murati
Former Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, previously lead at Tesla (Model X) and Leap Motion.
John Schulman
Co-founder of OpenAI, lead for reinforcement learning, creator of PPO and ChatGPT.
Lilian Weng
Former VP of Research, Safety at OpenAI, previously Staff ML Engineer at Affirm and Dropbox.
Barret Zoph
Former VP of Research, Post-training at OpenAI, previously Research Scientist at Google Brain. (Departed Jan 2026)
Andrew Tulloch
Former researcher at OpenAI and Meta AI. (Departed Jan 2026)
Luke Metz
Former researcher at OpenAI and Google Brain. (Departed Jan 2026)
Executive Team
Mira Murati
CEO & Founder
Former CTO of OpenAI.
John Schulman
Chief Scientist & Co-founder
Former OpenAI co-founder and RL lead.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Founded in early 2025 by Mira Murati and a cohort of high-level researchers following a major exodus from OpenAI. The company was born from a vision to bridge scientific gaps in AI understanding and provide a more open, collaborative alternative to existing frontier AI labs.
Business Model
Revenue Model
API usage fees (Tinker), enterprise license for custom platforms, and high-level AI consulting services.
Pricing Tiers
Full access to Tinker API, custom fine-tuning infrastructure, and dedicated support.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Developers
- Research Organizations
- Scientific Labs
- AI Engineering Teams
- Scientific discovery
- Programmable AI development
- Enterprise model customization
- AI safety research
- NVIDIA
- Mistral AI