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Mira Murati
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Mira Murati

Founder of Thinking Machines Lab; former CTO of OpenAI.

b. 1988United StatesFounder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

Led product and research engineering at OpenAI through ChatGPT and GPT-4, briefly served as interim CEO, and left in 2024 to start her own lab.

3 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first

  1. 2025–now1 yrThinking Machines LabFounder & CEO
  2. 2018–20246 yrsOpenAICTO
  3. 2013–20163 yrsTeslaProduct Manager, Model X

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No books — their work lives in papers, code and talks. The accounts above are the place to follow it.

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