OpenAI’s former chief expertise officer, Mira Murati, simply raised one of many largest seed rounds in historical past. Murati secured $2 billion in that seed spherical for Pondering Machines Lab — a startup so early, it hasn’t even revealed what it’s engaged on but. The transfer is elevating eyebrows throughout Silicon Valley, and it’s solely the most recent in a wave of prime researchers splintering off from OpenAI to chase their very own AI moonshots.
At the moment, on TechCrunch’s Fairness podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Rebecca Bellan and Anthony Ha break down what’s fueling the OpenAI expertise shuffle, investor enthusiasm, and a former worker’s behind-the-scenes peek inside the corporate. Both method, the staff agrees: seed rounds actually have modified.
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