AI lab founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati developing collaborative general intelligence.
Founders
Mira Murati(Albania · ♀)— Albanian-born former CTO of OpenAI who led ChatGPT and GPT-4, she founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025 to build AI that is more understandable, customizable and broadly capable.
John Schulman(United States · ♂)— An OpenAI co-founder who pioneered reinforcement learning from human feedback, he co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025 to advance frontier AI research.
Barrett Zoph(United States · ♂)— A former OpenAI VP of Research, he co-founded Thinking Machines Lab in 2025 (later returning to OpenAI).