- 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 AI safety standards.
- 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 positions 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 to be among the first checks into 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 details that the startup will “emphasize human-AI collaboration” and “build multimodal systems that work with people collaboratively.” She also pledges to contribute to AI safety by “maintaining a high safety bar” by preventing the use of the company’s released models, sharing best practices on how to build safe AI systems, and contributing to external safety research.