Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Secures Multibillion-Dollar Google Cloud Deal for Next-Gen AI Infrastructure

Apr 22, 2026
TechCrunch
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Summary

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signs a multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud, gaining access to Nvidia GB300 GPU-powered infrastructure to fuel its reinforcement learning workloads and Tinker, its custom frontier AI model automation tool.

Key Points

  • Mira Murati's startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar deal with Google Cloud to expand its AI infrastructure access, including systems powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 GPUs.
  • The non-exclusive agreement, valued in the single-digit billions, supports Thinking Machines' reinforcement learning workloads, which underpin Tinker, its tool for automating the creation of custom frontier AI models.
  • Google is aggressively securing cloud deals with fast-growing AI labs, competing with Amazon, which also recently signed a major agreement with Anthropic for up to 5 gigawatts of AI compute capacity.

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