Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Former Chief Technology Officer, Starts Her Own Company

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Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI who unexpectedly left the company in September, has helped found a new artificial intelligence start-up called Thinking Machines Lab, adding to the wave of young companies that have been formed in the race to lead A.I. systems more widely understood, customizable and generally capable,” according to a blog post from the new company. It said it would freely share its technologies with outside researchers and companies, a practice known as “open source.” Thinking Machines Lab declined to say if it has raised money. Some of them had clashed with Mr. Altman over the direction of OpenAI and its philosophy over A.I., a powerful technology that has implications for jobs and society. Their start-ups, along with giant companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft, are part of the global race to build increasingly powerful A.I.

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