Miriam Moratti has just raised $2 billion for her AI startup thinking machine labs, or as

everyone on Twitter is calling it, thinky.

We'll see if that name actually sticks.

But this is really impressive.

They've revealed a little bit about what they're actually going to be doing with the money,

who they got the money from.

We're going to break all of that down in the podcast today.

This is a huge deal. This is one of the top funded AI startups at this point with this new

$2 billion. And it has a $12 billion valuation before ever launching a product. So this is

really quite impressive. She went on Twitter recently and was tweeting about this. We're going to dive into all of that. Before we do, I wanted to mention if you ever wanted to try out the latest AI models that I talked about on the podcast here, there's new ones coming out every single week and sometimes every day. I love for you to go check out AIbox.AI. That's my own startup. We just launched our beta playground

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about them where they're able to go spin out of Open AI. We've had a lot of them leave Open

AI and go spin up their own companies and raise huge amounts of money. And Miriam Maradi,

she is, you know, a very serious player. She was the interim CEO for I think one or two days at Open

AI. So she's got a great track record and she was actually in charge. I believe she was the CTO at one point. She was in charge of a lot of the most impressive products that came out of opening I, including, I believe, their image generator. So what's interesting here, she's spinning out this whole new thing. And it has been very secret. If you go to their website, there is very little information that has, that we've essentially been able to find

on there. But she took to Twitter and gave us a little bit of an insight with this new round of

funding. This is what she said. She said, quote, thinking machine lab exists to empower humanity

through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building

multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world through conversation,

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