Mira Murati, the chief technology officer of OpenAI, has resigned from the company. She made the announcement on X, stating that she wants to have the time and space to do her own exploration.
Murati was among the top executives at OpenAI, a company behind the popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT. She briefly led the company last year when the board members were deciding the fate of CEO Sam Altman.
Altman’s Response
Altman replied to Murati’s post on X, expressing his gratitude towards her for the support and love during all the hard times. He also mentioned that it’s hard to overstate how much Murati has meant to OpenAI, their mission, and to them all personally.
Before joining OpenAI in 2018, Murati worked at Tesla and Leap Motion. OpenAI was a small nonprofit research lab at the time, focused on developing an AI system capable of mirroring a wide range of human tasks. However, after the success of ChatGPT, the organization has grown, and its focus has increasingly turned commercial.
Other Departures
Several other OpenAI leadership and senior engineering figures have stepped away from the company in recent months. These include Ilya Sutskever, Jan Leike, John Schulman, and Greg Brockman. Some former OpenAI executives and researchers have gone on to start new AI companies, including Safe Superintelligence and Anthropic.