Mira Murati 创立的 Thinking Machines Lab 宣布获得 20 亿美元融资,由 a16z 领投,NVIDIA、Accel 等参投。公司专注于多模态 AI、定制模型和开放科学,将在未来几个月推出首款产品,包含重要的开源组件,面向研究人员和初创公司。
Mira 的公司以 2B 融资和开源路线站上了今年 AI 创业的前排,虽然产品还没出来,但这笔钱和阵容本身就说明市场对多模态协作路线的信心。
一年前,我们以多模态 AI、定制模型和开放科学为重点,致力于赋能人类。
我们预览了以人类协作方式互动的交互模型。Tinker 让任何人都能训练自己的开放权重模型。我们发表了关于联结主义(Connectionism)的研究成果。
Thinking Machines Lab 的存在是为了通过推进协作式通用智能来赋能人类。 我们正在构建多模态 AI,它能配合你与世界自然互动的方式——通过对话,通过视觉,通过我们协作时那种杂乱无章的方式。我们很兴奋,在未来几个月内我们将能够分享我们的首个产品,它将包含一个重要的开源组件,并对开发自定义模型的研究人员和初创公司有用。很快,我们还将分享我们最好的科学成果,以帮助研究界更好地理解前沿 AI 系统。 为了加速我们的进展,我们很高兴地确认,我们已筹集了 20 亿美元,由 a16z 领投,NVIDIA、Accel、ServiceNow、CISCO、AMD、Jane Street 等与我们使命相同的机构参与。 我们一直在寻找那些通过实践学习、将研究转化为有用之物的非凡人才。我们相信 AI 应当作为个人能动性的延伸,并且本着自由的精神,尽可能广泛而公平地分发。我们希望这一愿景能引起那些与我们同样致力于推动该领域发展的人的共鸣。如果是这样,加入我们。https://thinkingmachines.paperform.co/
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Thinking Machines 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, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're excited that in the next couple months we’ll be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom models. Soon, we’ll also share our best science to help the research community better understand frontier AI systems. To accelerate our progress, we’re happy to confirm that we’ve raised $2B led by a16z with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, Jane Street and more who share our mission. We’re always looking for extraordinary talent that learns by doing, turning research into useful things. We believe AI should serve as an extension of individual agency and, in the spirit of freedom, be distributed as widely and equitably as possible. We hope this vision resonates with those who share our commitment to advancing the field. If so, join us. https://thinkingmachines.paperform.co/
来源:Mira Murati · x.com