Thinking Machines Lab
AI research lab building customizable LLMs
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2025
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company building customizable, multimodal AI systems designed for human-AI collaboration. The company develops open-weights foundation models, a fine-tuning API called Tinker, and interaction model research aimed at making AI more adaptable to individual needs.
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Last Updated: July 28, 2026
Current Valuation
$12B
as of July 15, 2025 (Source)
Funding Summary
$2B
Total reported funding
Announcement
August 27, 2026
TechCrunch: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google
OSS News & Views
August 27, 2026
The Next Web: Barret Zoph is going back to Google, six years and two startups later
Media Mention
August 27, 2026
Time: Mira Murati: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2026
Announcement
August 27, 2026
Thinking Machines Lab: Putting Task Expertise into RL Achieves State-of-the-Art Performance on Text-to-SQL - Thinking Machines Lab
OSS News & Views
August 25, 2026
The Next Web: She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.
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Key People
Core OSS Projects
Open-weights multimodal foundation model with 975B parameters (41B active), supporting text, image, and audio inputs
License: Apache-2.0
Training API and CLI for fine-tuning open-source language models with LoRA
License: Apache-2.0
Business Information
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LLMsIndustries
Software
Technologies
AI ModelsDeveloper ToolsMachine LearningDeep LearningAI Infrastructure
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Licenses
Apache-2.0
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