Murati is heading up Thinking Machines Lab as CEO. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is the company’s chief scientist, and Barret Zoph, OpenAI’s ex-chief research officer, is the CTO. In a blog post shared with TechCrunch, Thinking Machines Lab wrote that while AI capabilities have advanced dramatically, “key gaps” remain.

Thinking Machines Lab has hired a bunch of leaders from OpenAI. After her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what she’s working on.

About 30 researchers and engineers at Thinking Machines Lab come from rivals such as OpenAI, Meta, and Mistral, with ex-OpenAI staff making up two-thirds of the team.

Two-thirds of the staff at Thinking Machines Lab came from OpenAI, where the founder was once chief technology officer.

The company aims to make AI systems more accessible, understandable, and customizable. Murati’s team includes tech leaders from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Mistral.

Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati Tuesday unveiled her new startup's name, Thinking Machines Lab, and goal: developing AI systems focused on the interaction between humans and AI. Why it matters: Other startups founded by former OpenAI executives — from more mature AI firms like Anthropic to other just-out-of-the-gate startups like Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence — have more single-mindedly dedicated themselves to creating AI that's

Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati today launched a new artificial intelligence startup, Thinking Machines Lab Inc., that will develop multimodal models.

Mira Murati, once the secret weapon of OpenAI as its chief technology officer (CTO), has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) start-up aimed at broadening access to the technology. On Tuesday,