Nvidia Corp. has made a significant investment in artificial intelligence developer Thinking Machines Lab Inc. The companies revealed Thinking Machines will purchase billions of dollars' worth of hardware from Nvidia as part of the deal.
Thinking Machines was founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. The startup previously raised $2 billion in seed funding. Its first offering, Tinker, is a cloud service enabling developers to create customized versions of open-source large language models.
As part of the partnership, Thinking Machines will purchase at least 1 gigawatt of computing hardware from Nvidia, including Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs. This hardware is planned for deployment early next year. The companies will also collaborate on developing training and serving systems for Nvidia architectures.
Murati stated, "This partnership accelerates our capacity to build AI that people can shape and make their own, as it shapes human potential in turn." Recent job postings suggest Thinking Machines is developing AI models for audio processing and visual reasoning.