Mira Murati, former technical leader in Openai launches competitor startups
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Mira Murati, former chief technology officer of OpenAI, has launched a rival AI startup with a focus on making the technology widely accessible.
Murati, 36, unveiled a thinking machine lab for products and research organizations on Tuesday, aiming to make “AI systems more widely understood, customizable and generally capable.”
“Understanding the way these systems are trained in top research labs, which limits public discourse on AI and people’s ability to use AI effectively,” said a blog post on its website.
The SAN-FRANCISCO-based company also poached former senior OpenAI employees, including co-founder John Schulman, Jonathan Lachman, former special project leader and former vice president Barret Zoph.
Murati, who served as the interim CEO of OpenAI during a failed coup against founder Sam Altman, also hired researchers and engineers in the experience of other competitors, such as Google, Meta, Mista, Mistral and role AI, they will build models focused on science and programming.
“Scientific advancement is a collective effort,” said the Thinking Machine Lab. “We believe that by working with a wider community of researchers and builders, we will most effectively improve human understanding of AI.”
It added that it plans to publish technical blog posts, papers and code because it believes that “sharing our work will not only benefit the public, but will also improve our own research culture.”
Murati worked at OpenAI for more than six years, leading the company’s efforts to use Chatgpt as a standalone product and made technological breakthroughs from the company’s large language models.
In November 2023, OpenAI’s director appointed Murati to be removed from office for dismissing Altman, claiming he was not “frank enough” with the board. Ultraman returned a few days later after employees and investors protested.
Open co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever also participated in the coup attempt, and since then the company launched a startup called Safe Subline SuperIntelligence. It raised $1 billion in September to focus on developing secure AI systems with human-level or superior intelligence.
