# Mira Murati

> Mira Murati is co-founder and CEO. Inkling, Inkling-Small and Tinker on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Co-founder and CEO.

Mira Murati co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and has led it as chief executive since its launch in February 2025. She was OpenAI's chief technology officer from 2022 to 2024, leading work on ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Sora, and was briefly its interim CEO in November 2023. Earlier she worked at Tesla and Leap Motion.

- X: https://x.com/miramurati

## What Mira builds

- [Inkling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling.md), graded B, 64.2/100, in Open-weight models. Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's large open-weight mixture-of-experts model, 975B total and 41B active parameters, taking text, images and audio and returning text, with adjustable thinking effort, published in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Inkling-Small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inkling-small.md), graded B, 66.5/100, in Open-weight models. Inkling-Small is Thinking Machines Lab's open-weight mixture-of-experts model, 276B total and 12B active parameters, taking text, images and audio and returning text, with adjustable thinking effort, published in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Tinker](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tinker.md), graded D, 51.2/100, in Fine-tuning. Thinking Machines Lab's API for model training. Co-founder and CEO, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [John Schulman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-schulman-2/), Co-founder and Chief Scientist; Tinker research/hiring involvement
- [Joshua Gross](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/joshua-gross/), Original Tinker builder; now Director, Muse Product Post-Training at Meta

## Backed by

- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/andreessen-horowitz/)
- [NVIDIA](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/nvidia/)
- [Accel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/accel/)
- [ServiceNow](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/servicenow/)
- [Cisco Investments](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/cisco-investments/)
- [AMD](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/amd/)
- [Jane Street](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/jane-street/)

## Questions

### Who is Mira Murati?

Mira Murati co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and has led it as chief executive since its launch in February 2025. She was OpenAI's chief technology officer from 2022 to 2024, leading work on ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Sora, and was briefly its interim CEO in November 2023. Earlier she worked at Tesla and Leap Motion.

### What does Thinking Machines Lab make?

Anchor Terminal lists Inkling, Inkling-Small and Tinker from Thinking Machines Lab. Inkling is Thinking Machines Lab's large open-weight mixture-of-experts model, 975B total and 41B active parameters, taking text, images and audio and returning text, with adjustable thinking effort, published in BF16 and NVFP4 under Apache 2.0.

### Who has invested in Thinking Machines Lab?

The sources our research read name Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco Investments, AMD and Jane Street.

### How are Mira's tools graded?

Inkling is graded B, 64.2 out of 100; Inkling-Small is graded B, 66.5 out of 100; Tinker is graded D, 51.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/nvidia-partnership/
- https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/inkling-small/
- https://x.com/miramurati
- https://thinkingmachines.ai/
- https://thinkingmachines.ai
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/thinkingmachinesai/
- https://tinker-docs.thinkingmachines.ai/support/
- https://joschu.net
- https://x.com/search?q=from%3Ajohnschulman2%20Tinker&src=typed_query
- https://x.com/johnschulman2
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joshgross_software-engineer-product-activity-7379658412789448704-qys9
- https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tinker%22+%22Joshua+Gross%22
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshgross
- https://thinkingmachines.ai/tinker/
- https://x.com/tinkerapi

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