No product? Billion valuation? Sounds it’s 1999

A new startup, founded and led by for OpenAI CTO Mira Murati just raised the largest seed round ever; $2B. Her company, Thinking Machines Lab, has an estimated valuation of $10B based on the fundraise.

Here’s the kicker, Thinking Machine Labs has no product. All it has is a vague stated goal “to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable” and a bunch of AI heavy hitters on its founding team.

It’s also a public benefit corporation. So, you know, a ton of money to “make the world a better place” with the corporate equivalent of “a concept of a plan”. Nothing to see here, folks.

To top it off, the company is structured in such a way Murati’s votes on the BOD are weighted to give her majority decision making capability. What could possibly go wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Lab

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/1lkip5z/if_you_dont_think_ai_is_very_bubbly/

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