Hworking at Openai for more than six years Mira Muratiguiding the company’s efforts for Create chatgpt. In November 2023, during the failed coupon against the founder Sam Altman, he also temporarily held the position of CEO. That he had the intention of setting himself up his own since he had been suspected since, last September, he had resigned from his position as a technical director of Openai (“I want to carve out the time and space to make my explorations”). And that’s what happened. His startup is called Thinking Machines Lab and was born with the aim of making “the systems of artificial intelligence more widely understood, customizable and generally capable».
It is a new benefit corporation, or a company that pursues a beneficial impact on society, in addition to profit. The mission is to develop cutting -edge artificial intelligence that is also useful and available.
The ex of Openii Mi miosati launches his artificial intelligence startup
On the Thinking Machines Lab website presents itself for its mission: accessibility. To overturn the state of affairs, and fill the gap between the rapid progress of AI and the understanding of technology by everyone. “The knowledge of how these systems are trained is concentrated in the main research workshopslimiting both the public debate on artificial intelligence and people’s ability to use it effectively “.
Mira Murati at the Big Interview of Wired US in San Francisco, December 2024, San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images For Wired)
While “scientific progress is a collective effort. We believe that The most effective way to progress the understanding of artificial intelligence by humanity will be to collaborate With the largest community of researchers and manufacturers ». The mission is therefore sharing, also through the publication of technical posts, documents and code.
“Artificial intelligence at the service of all”
There is talk of “artificial intelligence at the service of all”, and the creation of multimodal systems that work collaboratively with people in a flexible and customizable way.
We are still in the initial stages of artificial intelligence, it is the vision of Murati. AND the appearance of Deepseek, The Chinese start-up that made Silicon Valley tremble with a low-cost artificial intelligence model tries: competition in the sector is far from closed.
The Thinking Machines Lab team
The 36 -year -old scientist initiative attracted about 30 high -profile researchers and engineers Coming from companies like Openai itself (co-founder John Schulman, Jonathan Lachman, former manager of special projects, and Barret Zoph, former vice-president), Meta e Mistral, are of the game. For the moment Thinking Machines Lab has not yet revealed the partners who will participate in his loan.
From Albania to Silicon Valley: who is Mira Murati
Born in Alabania 36 years ago, Mira Murati studied “mathematics and physics because in my country at the time they were perceived as important”. Graduate in mechanical engineering in Canada, He played a key role in Tesla (in the development of the Tesla Model S and the Model X).
At that time, he told “I was interested in artificial intelligence and his applications, in particular autonomous driving. It was at that moment that I wondered What would happen if the IA and computer vision had been used in other areas».
Who is afraid of AI
Entered Openai in 2018 and From the moment he was launched Chatgpt took on the role of CTO of the company. “Technology is a tool, we can use it well or badly”: it is Murati’s response to fears on potential risks related to artificial intelligence, starting from the loss of jobs.
“The IA brings with it the possibility of something great and wonderful and also immense risks. This is why it is so important to be consistent in the way we introduce it into the world. But the solution is not to stop innovation: it is to understand it, to be able to predict its skills and develop it responsibly».
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