Mira Murati, the former Openai technology director who left the company unexpectedly in SeptemberHelped to found a new artificial intelligence start-up called Thinking Machines Lab, adding to the wave of young companies that have been trained in the race to direct the AI
The Thinking Machines laboratory aims to “make AI systems more understood, customizable and generally capable”, according to a blog article from the new company. He said that he would freely share his technologies with researchers and external companies, a practice known as “open source”.
The laboratory of reflection machines refused to say if it has collected funds.
Ms. Murati, 36, was part OPENAI’s main leaders and researchers who left the company after Surprise of its general manager, Sam Altman, in November 2023 and his reintegration Five days later. Some of them had clashed with Mr. Altman on the management of Openai and his philosophy on AI, a powerful technology that has implications for jobs and society.
Other former Openai leaders, including the Co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskeverhave since created their own AI companies. Their start-ups, as well as giant companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft, are part of the world breed to build increasingly powerful AI technologies.
(The New York Times has heard OPENAI and its partner, Microsoft, affirming the violation of copyright of news content linked to AI systems.)
Openai captured the imagination of the world at the end of 2022 with Chatgpt outlet, An online chatbot that could answer questions, write to term articles, generate computer code and imitate human conversation. Mr. Altman has become a face of the movement of AI.
But in November 2023, four members of the Board of Directors of Openai ousted it, saying that they could not trust him on the plan of the company to one day create a machine that can do everything that the brain human can do. Ms. Murati, who joined Openai in 2018, was appointed to direct the company after the withdrawal of Mr. Altman, but she rejected the role two days later. She stayed in Openai after the return of Mr. Altman.
The Times reported last year That Ms. Murati had written a private note to Mr. Altman in the months preceding her evidence, raising questions about her management and sharing the memo with the board of directors of Openai. A lawyer for Ms. Murati denied complaints at the time.
When she left Openai, Ms. Murati said that she was walking away to “create time and space to make my own exploration”. She did not provide details.