Founder & CEO of Thinking Machines Lab
"Mira Murati spent six years steering OpenAI's flagship products before launching Thinking Machines Lab to pioneer customizable AI systems."
Mira Murati
Founder & CEO • Thinking Machines Lab
As Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, Mira Murati oversaw the deployment of ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, and GPT-4o. Her background in mechanical engineering and aerospace gave her a pragmatic, user-centric vision for deploying breakthrough AI models safely to hundreds of millions of users.
In 2025, Murati departed OpenAI to establish Thinking Machines Lab. Her firm focuses on building open, customizable AI models that allow enterprise teams to tailor reasoning capabilities and cognitive workflows directly to specialized domain knowledge.
With a $1 billion initial funding round and a team of top AI researchers, Murati's new laboratory quickly achieved a $4B valuation in 2026, creating one of the most anticipated next-generation AI platforms in Silicon Valley.
"AI must be customizable, transparent, and seamlessly integrated into human intention. That is the next frontier."
— Mira Murati, Thinking Machines Lab
Technical excellence combined with deep product intuition is what turns raw algorithms into global daily habits.
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