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Thinking Machines Lab, an AI company founded by top researchers who left OpenAI, has raised a record $2 billion seed round, valuing the firm at $12 billion. Led by Andreessen Horowitz, the funding round includes Nvidia, Accel, Cisco, and AMD. The company is developing multimodal AI to interact with humans through conversation, sight, and collaboration. The first product is expected to be released within months, along with open source components and research to advance the AI community.