[AI company Thinking Machines Lab is raising $5 billion at a pre-money valuation of $40 billion] According to Business Insider, citing sources familiar with the matter, Thinking Machines Lab, the artificial intelligence company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is raising $5 billion at a pre-money valuation of $40 billion. The company completed a $2 billion seed round earlier last year at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, but subsequent attempts to raise funds at a $50 billion valuation failed in negotiations. On the same day, Thinking Machines Lab released its second-generation model, Inkling 2 Small, which uses the MoE architecture, has a parameter scale of 594B-A17B, and underwent four stages of pre-training and nine days of joint reinforcement training.