Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, leaves the company

The news comes a week before the annual OpenAI conference in San Francisco, where the most important product innovations are usually presented. Last year, for example, Murati presented the first advances of ChatGPT’s multimodal model (capable of processing text, images and audio).

“It’s hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to all of us personally. “I feel enormous gratitude to her for what she has helped us build and achieve, but above all I feel personal gratitude to her for the support and love during difficult times,” Altman wrote after the announcement.

OpenAI’s resignations

In recent months, OpenAI has seen a wave of resignations from its executives. In August, John Schulman, who was one of the co-founders of OpenAI, reported that he left the company to join Anthropic, which is one of the direct rivals in the field of generative Artificial Intelligence.

In May, security researcher Jan Leike left the company to also join Anthropic in a move that was accompanied by public criticism of OpenAI and its approach to security.

In June, it was announced that Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and former chief scientist of OpenAI, launched his own Artificial Intelligence company, which will be called Safe Superintelligent (SSI) and will be focused on product security.

Who is Mira Murati?

Before OpenAI, Murati worked in Tesla’s Artificial Intelligence area. She is 35 years old, although she is Albanian, she was born in San Francisco, United States in a middle-class Hindu family. He speaks English, Italian and Albanian.

Since she was little she wanted to be an IT engineer and studied that career at Dartmouth College Hannover, United States. Later, he studied BE in Mechanical Engineering at the same university.

In 2009 she was a teaching assistant in her university’s engineering school and for four years she was the senior product manager for Tesla’s Model In 2016 she worked at the company Leap Motion, as vice president of product engineering and, finally, in 2018 she was recruited at OpenAI.

Her first role within the company was vice president of applied AI, later she was senior vice president of research and product, until in May 2022 she became the company’s technology leader.