OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati poaches 20 OpenAI researchers

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched a new AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. The company has reportedly recruited nearly 30 leading researchers and engineers from major AI companies, including her former employer, OpenAI, as well as Meta and Mistral.

According to a report by the news agency Reuters, the startup, which aims to build AI systems to encode human values and have broader applications, now employs a significant number of former OpenAI employees (around two-thirds of the workforce), including prominent researcher Barret Zoph as well as OpenAI co-founder John Schulman.