Mira Murati

“Former CTO of OpenAI and current CEO of Thinking Machine Labs, recognized by 53% of male survey respondents.”

“OpenAI's chief technology officer who resigned this year after frequently having to adjudicate arguments between safety-first researchers and the commercial team.”

“Former OpenAI CTO who founded AI lab Thinking Machines, now in talks to raise $1 billion at $40 billion valuation.”

“Former CTO of OpenAI now raising funding for her AI startup Thinking Machines Labs at a reported $40 billion valuation.”

“Chief Executive of OpenAI; involved in internal dispute that led Barret Zoph to leave the company.”

“Founded Thinking Machines to build AI that extends human will and judgment; previously CTO of OpenAI.”

“Mira Murati, OpenAI's CTO, left the company in September along with other senior leaders.”

“OpenAI CTO who served as interim CEO after Altman's firing, provided safety concerns to Sutskever, and later departed to found her own AI startup.”

“Former OpenAI CTO who founded Thinking Machines Lab; experiencing researcher departures to competitors.”

“Former OpenAI CTO now leading Thinking Machines, released Inkling and Inkling-Small multimodal AI models with open-source licensing.”

“Founded Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup that released Inkling, its first in-house open-weight model.”

“Rejects centralized AI in favor of localized, conflicting models; advocates for many AIs raised in different places shaped by the people they serve.”

“Testified in Musk v. Altman trial that Sam Altman is not to be trusted.”

“Former CTO of OpenAI who founded Thinking Machines Lab and unveiled TML-Interaction-Small, a new interaction model that processes audio, video, and text simultaneously with 0.4 second latency.”

“Founded Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup that introduced interaction models with full-duplex AI that listens and responds simultaneously.”

“Testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied about safety standards for a new AI model and undermined her authority during her tenure at OpenAI.”

“Former OpenAI CTO who founded the $12 billion AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which has lost 7 founding team members to Meta.”

“Investor in Worktrace AI's $10 million seed round.”

“Ex-OpenAI executive raised $2 billion seed funding at $12 billion valuation for AI startup.”

“Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab who announced the multi-year partnership with NVIDIA on frontier model training.”

“Former OpenAI exec whose year-old startup secured multi-year deal with Nvidia for at least a gigawatt of compute.”

“Founded Thinking Machines Lab after leaving OpenAI as CTO, raising $2B at $12B valuation.”

Modular manifolds represent a geometry-aware optimization approach that treats neural network layers as geometric modules to achieve more stable and consistent optimization across models.

“Founded Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup, and is ex-CTO of OpenAI; the team raised about $2 billion at a valuation of $12 billion.”

Soumith Chintala, creator of PyTorch and former Meta AI leader, has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab startup, which is aggressively recruiting top AI talent and in talks to raise funding at a $50 billion valuation.

“Former OpenAI CTO who founded Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product lab focused on human-AI collaboration.”

Eric Zelikman, former xAI researcher, is raising $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation for Humans&, a startup building empathetic AI models that learn from and understand users better than current language models.

“Started Thinking Machines Labs, an AI firm that raised $2 billion in a seed round at a $12 billion valuation.”

“Former OpenAI CTO now leading Thinking Machines Lab, which received acquisition interest from Meta.”

Mira Murati's lab identifies that the common 'concurrency + floating point' hypothesis does not fully explain LLM inference nondeterminism, suggesting a deeper underlying cause.

“Her lab found the cause of inconsistent LLM outputs related to nondeterminism in inference.”

AI unicorns are shifting from pure hype to proven commercial maturity in 2025, with both new AI and non-AI startups increasingly reaching $1B+ valuations at the scaling stage rather than earlier development phases.

“Former OpenAI CTO who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and raised a record-breaking $2B seed round at a $12B valuation in June 2025.”