Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer of Openai, who unexpectedly left the company in September, added a wave of young companies formed in races to lead AI, as well as a new AI called Thinking Machines Lab. helped find startups.
Thinking Machines Lab aims to “make AI systems more broadly understand, customizable and generally competent,” according to a new company's blog post. He said he would freely share technology with external researchers and businesses, a practice known as “open source.”
Thinking Machine Lab refused to say whether it raised money or not.
Murati, 36, was one of the top executives and researchers at the Open after the surprising expulsion of CEO Sam Altman in November 2023 and reinstated five days later. Some of them clashed with Altman about Openai and its philosophy direction for AI, a powerful technology that affects employment and society.
Other former Openai executives, including co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Satzkiber, have since established their own AI companies. Their startups are part of the global race to build increasingly powerful AI technologies, along with giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft and more.
(New York Times sued Openai and its partner Microsoft to alleges copyright infringement of news content related to AI Systems.)
Openai captured the world's imagination in late 2022 with the release of ChatGpt, an online chatbot that can answer questions, write terminology, generate computer code, and mimic human conversations. Altman has become the face of the AI ​​movement.
However, in November 2023, four Openai board members kicked him out and said they couldn't trust him with the company's plan to one day create a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. Murati, who joined Openai in 2018, was appointed to lead the company after Altman's removal, but refused the role two days later. After Mr. Altman returned, she stayed at the Open Alley.
Last year, the Times reported that Murati had written a private memo to Altman several months before his expulsion, raised questions about his management, and shared the memo with Openai's board of directors. Murati's lawyer had denied the claims at the time.
When she left Openai, Murati said she was separated to “create the time and space to explore.” She did not provide details.
