Question 1

What is Thinking Machines Lab known for?

Accepted Answer

Mira Murati's lab: Tinker, a fine-tuning API, and open research notes on reproducible inference. Landmarks: Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference (2025); LoRA Without Regret (2025); Tinker (2025).

Question 2

Who leads Thinking Machines Lab?

Accepted Answer

Mira Murati, Chief Executive Officer and Founder; Soumith Chintala, CTO; John Schulman, Chief Scientist.

Question 3

What kind of organization is Thinking Machines Lab?

Accepted Answer

Startup lab, founded in 2025, based in San Francisco.

Thinking Machines Lab

Landmark work

Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

LoRA Without Regret

Tinker

Leaders

Mira Murati

Soumith Chintala

John Schulman

Weiyao Wang

Funding and compute

Seed

Links

Mira Murati is now Chief Executive Officer and Founder.

Inkling dropped out of the models.fru.dev ranking.

Raised $2B (Seed) at a $12B valuation, Jul 2025.

Now lists Weiyao Wang (Other data and AI roles).

Added to Labs.