Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal
Google Cloud has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab for AI infrastructure.Summary
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, has secured a new multi-billion-dollar agreement with Google Cloud to expand its use of AI infrastructure. The deal, valued in the single-digit billions, grants the startup access to Google's latest AI systems, including those powered by Nvidia's new GB300 chips, and infrastructure for model training and deployment. This partnership highlights Google's strategy to integrate cloud offerings with other services and lock in rapidly growing AI labs. Thinking Machines, which previously raised $2 billion in seed funding, aims to automate the creation of custom frontier AI models with its product Tinker, which relies on reinforcement learning workloads supported by this new deal. The company is among the first Google Cloud customers to utilize its GB300-powered systems, promising significant speed improvements.
(Source：TechCrunch)