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Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati leads Thinking Machines Lab, which develops customizable AI systems, training tools, and interfaces for collaboration between people and models. Previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, she oversaw research, product, and safety during the development of several widely used AI systems. Her earlier engineering and product work included Tesla and Leap Motion; her current company combines model research with tools that let others adapt it.
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Mira Murati leads Thinking Machines Lab, which develops customizable AI systems, training tools, and interfaces for collaboration between people and models. Previously OpenAI’s chief technology officer, she oversaw research, product, and safety during the development of several widely used AI systems. Her earlier engineering and product work included Tesla and Leap Motion; her current company combines model research with tools that let others adapt it.
- Organization
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Earlier role
- Chief Technology Officer, OpenAI
- Education
- Dartmouth Bachelor of Engineering, 2012
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Selected research, leadership and career milestones, newest first.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling
Thinking Machines released the weights of Inkling, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model trained from scratch, and made it available for customization through its Tinker platform.
Source: Thinking Machines Lab ↗Announces NVIDIA infrastructure partnership
Murati’s company announced a partnership targeting at least one gigawatt of NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems. Deployment was targeted for early 2027, rather than already completed.
Source: Thinking Machines Lab ↗Tinker opens general availability
Thinking Machines removed Tinker’s waitlist and added vision input, another reasoning model, and an OpenAI-compatible sampling interface, broadening access to its managed training service.
Source: Thinking Machines Lab ↗Launches Tinker
Thinking Machines introduced Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models that exposes training algorithms and data control while managing distributed infrastructure and resource allocation.
Source: Thinking Machines Lab ↗Founds Thinking Machines Lab
Dartmouth’s current biography dates Murati’s founding of Thinking Machines to December 2024, after her work overseeing research, product, and safety as OpenAI’s chief technology officer.
Source: Dartmouth College ↗Receives Dartmouth honorary doctorate
Dartmouth awarded Murati an honorary Doctor of Science, recognizing her engineering leadership and work developing AI systems, following her earlier undergraduate engineering studies at the college.
Source: Dartmouth College ↗Becomes OpenAI CTO
OpenAI appointed Murati chief technology officer after she led research, product, and partnership functions, recognizing her role in bringing those groups together for DALL-E research.
Source: OpenAI ↗Completes Dartmouth engineering degree
Murati earned her Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmouth’s Thayer School, an academic foundation preceding her engineering and product work in vehicles, interfaces, and artificial intelligence.
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