Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, seeks to found her own AI startup

Additionally, she was named interim CEO after the firm’s board ousted Sam Altman from the CEO role last November. “I’m leaving because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” he said.

It is due to this context and reputation in Murati’s career that his new company could raise more than $100 million, anonymous sources told the news agency, who also detailed that the figures have not been completely finalized.

Barret Zoph, a former OpenAI researcher who, in fact, left the company the same day as Murati, is expected to participate in the new venture, as The Information previously reported his intention to open his own startup.

OpenAI, a mafia that feeds the world of AI

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.

Murati’s discreet but important career in AI

Before OpenAI, Murati worked in Tesla’s Artificial Intelligence area. According to some of the few interviews she has given, 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.