Athira Sethu
Kochi, 19 February 2025
Thinking Machines Lab is a new AI startup founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI chief technology officer. In September 2023, Murati left OpenAI very suddenly. The new company’s mission is to enable AI systems to be more understandable, customizable, and capable of performing much wider-ranging work. Thinking Machines Lab also builds a strong base of research through its open-source tactics, which makes the diffusion of these technologies to a larger sphere of use quite easy and genuine.
Murati, 36, was one of the company’s principal engines at OpenAI, which found international fame last fall for releasing the ChatGPT chatbot that answers questions, writes essays, and imitates human conversations. Executive shuffles down that road included the departure of many executives, including Murati, following the realization that Altman had been ousted and later reinstated as the firm’s leading CEO. There was a substantial amount of disagreement regarding the priorities of the company and the direction it would take in relation to AI and how this would have potential consequences for work and society as well.
Murati, along with Sutskever, is on her way to establishing other companies. Instantly, corporate titans such as Google, Meta, and Microsoft are emerging as sure competitors favoring either these new companies or orthodox analogies, having joined the global race towards a more advanced and powerful generation of AI systems.
Before leaving, she expressed concerns about Altman’s management in an email sent to OpenAI’s board. She said she would go on to explore something new upon his reinstatement and was lengthy out once the news went out that she started Thinking Machines Lab. She did not provide details of what those endeavors might be while saying that she was walking away. Her startup might make a strong wave in AI.
