Mira Murati, the former main technology of OpenAi who unexpectedly left the company in September, helped find a new start-up of artificial intelligence called Thinking Machines Lab, which contributes to the wave of young companies in the race are formed to lead AI
Thinking Machines Lab wants to “be widely understood, adjustable and general capable”, according to a blog post of the new company. It said it would freely share his technologies with external researchers and companies, a practice known as 'open source'.
The Thinking Machines lab refused to say whether the money has collected.
Mrs. Murati, 36, was one of the top managers and researchers of OpenAi who left the company after the surprise of his Chief Executive, Sam Altman, in November 2023 and his recovery five days later. Some of them were clashing with Mr Altman about the leadership of OpenAi and his philosophy about AI, a powerful technology that has consequences for jobs and society.
Other former OpenAi managers, including the co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutkever, have since set up their own AI companies. Their startups, together with gigantic companies such as Google, Meta and Microsoft, are part of the global race to build more and more powerful AI technologies.
(The New York Times has sued OpenAi and his partner, Microsoft, and claims infringement of the copyright of news content with regard to AI systems.)
At the end of 2022, OpenAi captured the imagination of the world with the release of Chatgpt, an online chatbot that could answer questions, write term papers, generate computer code and mimic the human conversation. Mr. Altman became a face of the AI movement.
But in November 2023, four OpenAi board members disappeared and said they could not trust him with the company's plan to make a machine one day that can do everything that the human brain can do. Mrs. Murati, who came to OpenAi in 2018, was named for the company to lead after Mr Altman's removal, but she rejected the role two days later. She stayed with OpenAI after Mr. Altman returned.
The Times reported last year that Mrs. Murati had written a private memo to Mr Altman in the months before his expulsion, raise questions about his management and sharing the memo with the OpenAI board. A lawyer for Mrs. Murati denied the claims at that time.
When she left OpenAi, Mrs. Murati said she was leaving “to create the time and space to do my own exploration.” She gave no details.
