Mira Murati

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Mira Murati
Born (1988-12-16) 16 December 1988 (age 36)
Vlorë, People's Socialist Republic of Albania
Education Dartmouth College (BEng)
Colby College (BA)
Pearson College UWC (IBDP)
Employer OpenAI (2018–2024)
Known for ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4 (development)
Artificial intelligence ethics (advocacy)
Title Chief technology officer
Awards Honorary Doctor of Science

Ermira "Mira" Murati (born 16 December 1988) is an engineer, researcher, and tech executive. She served as chief technology officer of OpenAI from May 2022 to September 2024.

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Early life and education

Murati was born on 16 December 1988 [1] in Vlorë, Albania. [2] At age 16, Murati won a scholarship and attended the Pearson United World College of the Pacific on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, from which she graduated in 2005. [3] [4]

Murati studied at a dual-degree program in the United States, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in 2011, [5] [6] followed in 2012 by a Bachelor of Engineering from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Career

Early career

Murati briefly worked for Zodiac Aerospace as an intern before joining electric car company Tesla in 2013. In Tesla she joined as a product manager on the Model X directly after her bachelor's in Mechanical engineering. From 2016 until joining OpenAI in 2018, she worked for augmented reality start-up Leap Motion (now Ultraleap). In 2018, She joined as the VP of applied AI and has since been promoted to CTO of OpenAI. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

OpenAI

Murati joined OpenAI in 2018 as the "VP of Applied AI and Partnerships" in December 2020, and became chief technology officer (CTO) in May 2022. [17] As CTO, she led its work on ChatGPT, Dall-E, Codex and Sora, while overseeing its research, product and safety teams. [13] [18] [19] [20] She oversaw technical advancements and direction of OpenAI's various projects, including the development of advanced AI models and tools. Her work was instrumental in the development and deployment of some of OpenAI's most notable products, such as the Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) series of language models. [21] [22] Her work included pushing the boundaries of machine learning while advocating for the responsible and ethical use of AI technologies. [23] Commenting about the potential loss of creative jobs to AI, Murati said that "maybe [the jobs] shouldn’t have been there in the first place". [24]

In November 2023, Murati briefly took over as interim chief executive officer of OpenAI following the removal of Sam Altman from the job. [25] [26] [10] [27] She was replaced by Emmett Shear three days later, who was in turn ousted when Altman was reinstated five days after being removed. Following this series of events, Murati returned to her role as CTO. [28] [29] [30]

In September 2024, Murati announced that she was stepping down as CTO to allow her the opportunity to "do my own exploration". [31] [32] In her exit memo, she expressed gratitude towards the OpenAI team and highlighted the success of their recent developments in AI, including speech-to-speech technology and OpenAI's work on "robust, aligned, and steerable" models. [32] This move came amid a wider executive exodus as OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew and a vice president of research, Barret Zoph, also announced their departures soon after. [33]

Thinking Machines Lab

In February 2025, Murati launched an AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. It was reported to have hired "a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta and Mistral." [34] [35] [36] [37]

Awards and recognition

In October 2023, Murati was ranked 57th on Fortune 's list of "The 100 Most Powerful Women in Business of 2023". [38] [39]

In September 2023, when writing for Time 's 2023 100 Next list of rising leaders across industries, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella praised Murati's "ability to assemble teams with technical expertise, commercial acumen, and a deep appreciation for the importance of mission". Nadella went on to say, "Mira has helped build some of the most exciting AI technologies we’ve ever seen, including ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4." [21]

In June 2024, Dartmouth College awarded Murati an honorary Doctor of Science for having "democratized technology and advanced a better, safer world for us all". [40] [41]

In September 2024, Murati was included in Time's list of "The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2024". [42]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Mira Murati:The Friendly Face Heading Up Tech For ChatGPT". Forbes India. Archived from the original on 3 July 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. ↑ Morris, Chris (2023). "OpenAI's Mira Murati". Fast Company . Archived from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Pearson College Annual Report 2008/2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Ermira Murati | Davis UWC Scholars". www.davisuwcscholars.org. Archived from the original on 16 April 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  5. ↑ "The Colby Oracle 2011". The Colby Oracle. 1 January 2011.
  6. ↑ "Announcing the 2024 Honorary Degree Recipients". Dartmouth Student Affairs. 8 April 2024.
  7. ↑ Barath, Harini (2023). "ChatGPT Gets Dartmouth Talking". Dartmouth College . Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "From the Editor, Colby College". Colby College. p. 2. Archived from the original on 5 June 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  9. ↑ Bordoloi, Pritam (9 May 2022). "OpenAI gets a new president, CTO & COO in the latest rejig". Analytics India Magazine. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  10. 1 2 Mickle, Tripp; Metz, Cade (17 November 2023). "Meet Mira Murati, the Engineer Now Leading OpenAI". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  11. ↑ "Dartmouth Engineering Alum Mira Murati Interviewed on The Daily Show…". Dartmouth Engineering. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  12. ↑ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/behind-the-tech/mira-murati-chief-technology-officer-openai
  13. 1 2 Murgia, Madhumita (18 June 2023). "OpenAI's Mira Murati: the woman charged with pushing generative AI into the real world". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 4 July 2023. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  14. ↑ Robison, Kylie; Lev-Ram, Michal (5 October 2023). "Mira Murati, the young CTO of OpenAI, is building ChatGPT and shaping your future" . Fortune . Archived from the original on 5 October 2023.
  15. ↑ Barr, Lollie. "Mira Murati". CEO Magazine. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  16. ↑ "Mira Murati, CTO of ChatGPT company OpenAI has a 'warning'". The Times of India. 10 February 2023. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  17. ↑ "OpenAI's technology chief Mira Murati, two other research executives to leave". Reuters. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  18. ↑ Simons, John (February 2023). "Keeping AI in Check". TIME . Vol. 201, no. 5/6. pp. 60–61.
  19. ↑ Stern, Joanna. "WSJ News Exclusive | OpenAI Made AI Videos for Us. These Clips Are Good Enough to Freak Us Out". WSJ. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  20. ↑ "Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on shepherding ChatGPT". AP News. 24 April 2023. Archived from the original on 26 April 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  21. 1 2 "2023 TIME100 Next: Mira Murati". Time. 13 September 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  22. ↑ "Insider Q&A: OpenAI CTO Mira Murati on shepherding ChatGPT". Associated Press News. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
  23. ↑ "Speaker Details: Mira Murati SVP, Research, Product, & Partnerships OpenAI – Aligning AI Technologies at Scale, EmTech Digital 2022". Technology Review. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  24. ↑ "This article is more than 2 months old OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving firm to do her 'own exploration'". www.theguardian.com. 25 September 2024.
  25. ↑ "OpenAI announces leadership transition". openai.com. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  26. ↑ Peters, Jay (17 November 2023). "Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI". The Verge. Archived from the original on 17 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  27. ↑ Seetharaman, Deepa; Berber, Jin (17 November 2023). "Sam Altman Is Out at OpenAI After Board Skirmish". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  28. ↑ Heath, Alex (20 November 2023). "The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart". The Verge.
  29. ↑ Metz, Cade; Isaac, Mike; Mickle, Tripp; Weise, Karen; Roose, Kevin (22 November 2023). "Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI's Chief Executive". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  30. ↑ Isaac, Mike; Mickle, Tripp; Metz, Cade (7 March 2024). "Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman's Ouster". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 8 March 2024.
  31. ↑ Zeff, Maxwell (25 September 2024). "OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she's leaving the company". TechCrunch . Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  32. 1 2 Murati, Mira [@miramurati] (25 September 2024). "I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today" (Tweet). Retrieved 25 September 2024– via Twitter. Our recent releases of speech-to-speech and Open AI o1 mark the beginning of a new era in interaction and intelligence... we fundamentally changed how AI systems learn and reason through complex problems. We brought safety research from the theoretical realm into practical applications, creating models that are more robust, aligned, and steerable than ever before... I'm stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.
  33. ↑ Isaac, Mike; Metz, Cade (25 September 2024). "OpenAI Executives Exit as C.E.O. Works to Make the Company For-Profit". New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2024.
  34. ↑ Bajwa, Arsheeya; Hu, Krystal; Tong, Anna; Hu, Krystal; Tong, Anna (19 February 2025). "Mira Murati's new AI startup poaches 20 OpenAI researchers". Reuters. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
  35. ↑ Eaton, Kit (17 January 2025). "OpenAI's Ex-CTO Raids Rivals for Top Team at Her Startup". Inc. Archived from the original on 22 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  36. ↑ Palazzolo, Stephanie; Efrati, Amir (29 January 2025). "OpenAI Tightens Grip on High End of App Market; Murati's Startup Gets a Name [Paywalled]". The Information. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  37. ↑ Schiffer, Zoë. "Mira Murati's AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 28 January 2025.
  38. ↑ "Most Powerful Women". Fortune.
  39. ↑ "Mira Murati | 2023 Most Powerful Women". Fortune. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  40. ↑ "Dartmouth Awards Honorary Degrees | Dartmouth". home.dartmouth.edu. 9 June 2024.
  41. ↑ "OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Th'12 Shares Optimism for AI's Future". Dartmouth Engineering.
  42. ↑ Chow, Andrew R. (5 September 2024). "TIME100 AI 2024: Mira Murati". Time. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
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