OpenAI
Leap Motion
Tesla
Colby College
Dartmouth College
John SchulmanCo-founder and Chief Scientist · Thinking Machines LabResearcher↗Both at Thinking Machines Lab
Founder · Executive
Mira Murati
Thinking Machines LabCo-founder and CEO
🇦🇱 Albanian-AmericanBorn 1988
Murati spent six years at OpenAI, rising to chief technology officer and overseeing the development of ChatGPT, DALL·E and GPT-4, before leaving in 2024. In 2025 she founded Thinking Machines Lab, which raised a record $2 billion seed round[1] and released Tinker, a tool for adapting open models; she serves as its CEO.
Career & education
Current roleThinking Machines LabJan 2025-presentCo-founder and CEO
Thinking Machines LabJan 2025-presentPreviously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Selected contributions
GPT-4 Technical Report
With OpenAI, Joshua Achiam, Steven Adler, Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Ilge Akkaya, Florencia Leoni Aleman and others ·Reported GPT-4's capabilities, limitations and safety evaluations as a text-and-image input model.
References
- Thinking Machines Lab record seed round — WIREDwired.com
Record-size $2 billion seed round reported in July 2025; does not source the later Tinker release.
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