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Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal

Google secures infrastructure ties with Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab via a multi-billion-dollar GB300 GPU deal, escalating hyperscaler competition to lock in frontier AI talent.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline

Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure including Nvidia's GB300 GPUs. The partnership marks the lab's first major cloud services agreement and reflects escalating competition among hyperscalers to lock in frontier AI developers. The non-exclusive deal allows Thinking Machines to use multiple cloud providers while Google secures an early relationship.

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