Understanding Thinking Machines.
A cited study for our team and anyone curious: who Thinking Machines Lab is, the science they publish, and how their direction lines up with the owned, consent-first world 🤫 is building.
A study and a proposed alignment from public information — never a claimed deal or endorsement.
Good science, in the open.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded in 2025 by Mira Murati, publishes its research in the open and builds toward AI that is distributed, customizable, and shaped by the people who use it. We admire that work, and we study it carefully so our team is aligned from day 0 on the science we want to stay close to.
Their direction and ours rhyme. They build the science of customizable, reliable, human-shaped intelligence; 🤫 builds the place that intelligence should live — owned, private, consent-first, and at the edge, across 🤫 Private Agent One, 🤫 Puppy One, 🤫 Tag One, and 🤫 Factory One. This study lays out what they do, how it lines up, and a plan we can act on.
Three parts, all cited.
Public facts, cited.
- Thinking Machines Lab — official site ↗
- Connectionism — their research blog ↗
- "The Future Worth Building Is Human" (Jul 10, 2026) ↗
- Announcing Tinker (Oct 1, 2025) ↗
- Tinker — product ↗
- Thinking Machines Lab — GitHub ↗
- Wikipedia — Thinking Machines Lab (founding & funding) ↗
- TechCrunch — $12B seed (Jul 15, 2025) ↗
This is a public study and an open, honest invitation from 🤫 hushh — an admiration of Thinking Machines' public work and a proposal to explore a partnership. It is not a claimed deal, affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship. Every fact here is drawn from Thinking Machines' own public writing or reputable press; figures that are press-reported are labeled "reported", and quotations are verbatim from the cited source. Companies and facts change — verify against the primary sources before acting.