Mira Murati, who worked as chief technology officer (CTO) at OpenAI, has established a new artificial intelligence (AI) startup. She is now in competition with her former businessman OpenAI and even a co-founder of OpenAI is drawing attention.
According to the Financial Times (FT) on the 18th, Murati announced on its blog that it will start the operation of Thinking Machines Lab, an AI start-up based in San Francisco. “Our goal is to create an AI system that is more widely understood, customizable, and generally high-performance,” Murati said.
The Thinking Machines Lab was joined by John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI, Jonathan Rahman, who was the head of special projects at OpenAI, and Barrett Joff, former vice president, a former chief research officer.
Murati also worked at OpenAI for more than six years and served as interim CEO when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted. At the time, he supported Altman’s return.
Murati has hired a large number of researchers and engineers with experience in Google, Meta, Mistral, and Character AI, and will work with them to build a model focused on science and programming.
“Scientific progress is a collective effort,” Singing Machines Lab said. “We believe we can work with a wider community of researchers and developers to most effectively develop human understanding of AI.” “We are planning to release technology blogs, papers, and codes,” he said, adding, “Because we believe that sharing work will not only benefit the public, but also improve our own research culture.”
As a result, the three co-founders of OpenAI are now competing in different companies. Ilya Sutzkeber, another co-founder of OpenAI, founded Safe Superintelligence (SSI) in June last year. As its name suggests, the company is aiming to develop AI that focuses on safety.
Sutskeber led the ouster of Altman in cooperation with the board of directors, saying that the pace of commercialization of OpenAI is too fast. He left the company after returning to Altman and received a love call from Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Suitskeber also recruited a large number of talents from its competitors, including Daniel Gross, a former head of OpenAI and Apple AI, and Daniel Levy, a former OpenAI researcher. SSI raised 1 billion dollars in investment in September last year, just three months after its establishment.
SAM KIM
US ASIA JOURNAL
