Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inks Multi-Billion-Dollar Deal With Google Cloud To Scale AI Infrastructure Using Nvidia GB300 Chips

Mira Murati’s artificial intelligence startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has entered into a multi-billion-dollar agreement with Google Cloud to significantly expand its computational infrastructure. The deal, valued in the single-digit billions, grants the firm access to advanced systems powered by Nvidia’s latest GB300 chips.

This partnership marks the first time the laboratory has aligned with a major cloud services provider since its inception. While Thinking Machines Lab previously secured an investment and partnership with Nvidia, this expansion into Google’s ecosystem includes infrastructure services for model training and deployment, alongside integrated tools like Google’s Spanner database and Kubernetes engine. OpenAI To Invest USD 1.5 Billion in Private Equity Joint Venture To Scale Enterprise AI.

Mira Murati Scales Up Infrastructure

The agreement focuses on supporting high-intensity reinforcement learning workloads, a training methodology essential to the architecture of the startup's flagship product, Tinker. Launched in October, Tinker serves as an automated tool for creating custom frontier AI models, requiring immense scale to function effectively.

By securing this capacity, the lab joins a growing list of frontier AI developers opting for diverse hardware solutions. Although Google offers its own custom Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), this specific deal highlights the continued demand for Nvidia’s Blackwell-series GB300 GPUs to facilitate complex machine learning tasks.

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The competition among cloud providers to host high-growth startups remains intense. Earlier this month, Anthropic signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for TPU capacity, while simultaneously securing up to 5 gigawatts of capacity from Amazon for its Claude models.

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Since founding Thinking Machines Lab in February 2025 following her departure from OpenAI, the former chief technologist has moved at a rapid pace. The startup initially raised USD 2 billion in a seed round that valued the company at USD 12 billion, positioning it as a major player in the evolving AI landscape. Meet Mira Murati, AI Leader Who Turned Down Mark Zuckerberg’s USD 1 Billion Offer for Her Startup ‘Thinking Machines Lab’.

While the current agreement with Google Cloud is non-exclusive—allowing the lab to potentially use other providers in the future—it serves as a strategic move for Google to embed its services within a fast-rising venture. The scale of the deal reflects the massive financial and technical requirements currently needed to sustain reinforcement learning research at the frontier level.

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