Ex-CTO of OpenAI Mira Murati launches new AI startup

Mira Murati, Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer, has launched a new AI startup named Thinking Machines Lab. Murati is now the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup focused on building AI that truly works for people’s unique needs.

In her team, Mira has roped in leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta and Mistral.

Thinking Machines Lab is focused on AI that enhances human-AI collaboration—one of the biggest challenges in the field. It is an artificial intelligence research and product company with scientists, engineers, and builders who have worked for most widely used AI products and libraries, including ChatGPT, Character.ai, PyTorch, and Mistral.

According to the latest post by Generative AI on LinkedIn, several leaders who have been named as part of the startup include OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, who is working as chief scientist at the company, Barret Zoph (ex-VP of Research at OpenAI), Alexander Kirillov, John Lackman, Luke Metz (AI research leads) and other experts from Google and Mistral AI.

"Our mission is to make artificial intelligence work for you by building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI serve their unique needs. We are committed to open science through publications and code releases, while focusing on human-AI collaboration that serves diverse domains. Our approach embraces co-design of research and products to enable learning from real-world deployment and rapid iteration. This work requires three core foundations: state-of-the-art model intelligence, high-quality infrastructure, and advanced multimodal capabilities. We are committed to building models at the frontier of capabilities to deliver on this promise", the company said on LinkedIn.