OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6R0P6)
Screenshot: YouTube OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving the company, she announced on Wednesday.
I'm stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration," she wrote in a post on X. For now, my primary focus is doing everything in my power to ensure a smooth transition, maintaining the momentum we've built."
This comes almost a year after a boardroom coup shook the AI startup and temporarily ousted CEO Sam Altman, leaving Murati as its temporary leader. Prior to OpenAI, Murati worked at Tesla on its AI efforts.
In her six-year tenure, Murati was responsible for managing the company's popular chatbot, ChatGPT, as well as its text-to-image generator, DALL-E.
This news also comes at a seemingly cursed time for OpenAI. The...