The wait is finally over. Mira Murati announces new startup, Thinking Machines Lab.
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- Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI, has launched Thinking Machines Lab.
- Her new startup focuses on human-AI collaboration and maintaining high standards for AI safety.
- Murati has hired top talent from Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Thinking Machines Lab, a new company created by Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI, emerged from stealth on Tuesday.
In a blog post, the startup positioned itself as an artificial intelligence research and product lab focused on making these systems more accessible.
"To bridge the gaps, we're building Thinking Machines Lab to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable and generally capable," Murati wrote.
From the moment Murati stepped away from OpenAI, venture capitalists started circling the machine learning maven, vying to be among the first to offer checks to her new company.
In just a few months, Murati has assembled a team of machine learning researchers and engineers from Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, and other tech goliaths. The company reunites several of Murati's former coworkers, including John Schulman, who co-led the creation of ChatGPT; Jonathan Lachman, formerly the head of special projects at OpenAI; and Alexander Kirillov, who worked closely with Murati on ChatGPT's voice mode.
In the post, Murati said the startup would "emphasize human-AI collaboration" and "build multimodal systems that work with people collaboratively." She also said the startup would contribute to AI safety by "maintaining a high safety bar" that prevents the misuse of the company's released models, sharing best practices on how to build safe AI systems, and adding to external safety research.