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Mira Murati

@miramurati
39 posts
2026-01-16
We have parted ways with Barret Zoph.  Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines.  He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he's been a major contributor to our team.  We could not be more excited to have him take on this new responsibility.
2026-01-16 View on X
Wired

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines employees are set to join OpenAI soon; some AI researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama

OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says.

We have parted ways with Barret Zoph.  Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines.  He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he's been a major contributor to our team.  We could not be more excited to have him take on this new responsibility.
2026-01-16 View on X
Sources

Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the past couple of months to raise a new round of financing

More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI.  Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.

2026-01-15
We have parted ways with Barret Zoph.  Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines.  He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he's been a major contributor to our team.  We could not be more excited to have him take on this new responsibility.
2026-01-15 View on X
Wired

A source close to Thinking Machines Lab alleges ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors

The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab.  Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.

We have parted ways with Barret Zoph.  Soumith Chintala will be the new CTO of Thinking Machines.  He is a brilliant and seasoned leader who has made important contributions to the AI field for over a decade, and he's been a major contributor to our team.  We could not be more excited to have him take on this new responsibility.
2026-01-15 View on X
@kyliebytes

Thinking Machines Lab parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct”

BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at a...

2025-12-13
We're making Tinker generally available with new models and features.
2025-12-13 View on X
Thinking Machines Lab

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab makes Tinker, its API for fine-tuning language models, generally available, adds support for Kimi K2 Thinking, and more

Tinker is a dream for multi-agent setups, Nathan Lambert / @natolambert : Please add olmo3 @johnschulman2 et al. The goal is to make it the foundational research infrastructure for...

2025-10-02
Today we launched Tinker. Tinker brings frontier tools to researchers, offering clean abstractions for writing experiments and training pipelines while handling distributed training complexity. It enables novel research, custom models, and solid baselines. Excited to see what
2025-10-02 View on X
Wired

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta, with support for Qwen and Llama

Today, we are launching Tinker, a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Moneycontrol : Ex-OpenAI CEO Mira Murati stealth AI lab launches its first ever product Matthias Bas...

2025-09-14
A big part of our mission at Thinking Machines is to improve people's scientific understanding of AI and work with the broader research community. Introducing Connectionism today to share some of our scientific insights.
2025-09-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Mira Murati's TML launches a research blog called Connectionism, and shares its work on resolving nondeterminism and achieving reproducible results from LLMs

There's been great interest in what Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is building with its $2 billion in seed funding …

2025-07-16
...We're excited that in the next couple months we'll be able to share our first product, which will include a significant open source component and be useful for researchers and startups developing custom models.  Soon, we'll also share our best science to help the research community better understand frontier AI systems.  To accelerate our progress, we're happy to confirm that we've raised $2B led by a16z with participation from NVIDIA, Accel, ServiceNow, CISCO, AMD, Jane Street and more who share our mission.
2025-07-16 View on X
Reuters

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised a $2B seed led by a16z at a $12B valuation; Nvidia, Accel, ServiceNow, Cisco, AMD, and Jane Street also invested

bsky.app/profile/wire...  [embedded post] @akhilrao : i feel like i've known Murati is at a startup called Thinking Machine Labs for months. maybe idk what “stealth” means [embedde...

2025-02-19
I started Thinking Machines Lab alongside a remarkable team of scientists, engineers, and builders.  We're building three things: - Helping people adapt AI systems to work for their specific needs - Developing strong foundations to build more capable AI systems - Fostering a culture of open science that helps the whole field understand and improve these systems Our goal is simple, advance AI by making it broadly useful and understandable through solid foundations, open science, and practical applications. thinkingmachines.ai
2025-02-19 View on X
Axios

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she's leading as CEO, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist

- “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …

2024-12-10
@model_mechanic ... Beautiful! Congrats!
2024-12-10 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p

OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its text-to-video AI model, as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” event. Megan Morrone / Axios : OpenAI launches Sora video generator Dwayne Oxfor...

2024-09-27
I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. [image]
2024-09-27 View on X
CNBC

Source: at an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said there are no plans for him to get a “giant equity stake” in OpenAI, calling that information “just not true”

At an all-hands meeting Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied that there are plans for him to receive a …

2024-09-26
I shared the following note with the OpenAI team today. [image]
2024-09-26 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she is leaving the company after 6.5 years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration”

- OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business … OpenAI's board is considering plans …

2024-09-13
Today we rolled out OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini to all ChatGPT Plus/Team users & Tier 5 developers in the API. o1 marks the start of a new era in AI, where models are trained to “think” before answering through a private chain of thought. The more time they take to think, the
2024-09-13 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”

OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …

Today we rolled out OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini to all ChatGPT Plus/Team users & Tier 5 developers in the API. o1 marks the start of a new era in AI, where models are trained to “think” before answering through a private chain of thought. The more time they take to think, the
2024-09-13 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers

Advancing cost-efficient reasoning.  —  Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / On...

2024-07-19
GPT-4o mini makes intelligence far more affordable opening up a wide range of applications. Available on API and rolling out on ChatGPT today
2024-07-19 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

GPT-4o mini costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, prices lower than those of Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash

GPT-4o mini.  I've been complaining about how under-powered GPT 3.5 is for the price for a while now (I made fun of it in a keynote a few weeks ago).

GPT-4o mini makes intelligence far more affordable opening up a wide range of applications. Available on API and rolling out on ChatGPT today
2024-07-19 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper offshoot of GPT-4o, replacing GPT-3.5 Turbo, with support for all multimodal inputs and outputs coming soon

each step more refined Aiming for the ‘perfect training set’ - the ultimate concentrate of all human knowledge and creativity Whether Gemini 1.5 Jeff Harris / @jeffintime : hidden ...

2024-05-09
Today we introduced the Model Spec, starting a public process on shaping desired model behavior — giving stakeholders more agency over steering AI models as they significantly improve in decision making and instruction following capabilities. https://openai.com/...
2024-05-09 View on X
VentureBeat

OpenAI publishes Model Spec, which specifies how its AI models should act, including objectives, rules, and default behaviors, and asks the public for feedback

OpenAI isn't done trying to live up to the “open” in its name.  —  While not making any of its new models open source …

2024-05-04
Good article on the work that @charleskfisher & his team at @UnlearnAI are doing, using deep learning to make clinical trials smarter — creating digital twins to predict how diseases progress, which speeds up the whole process and helps more people https://www.wsj.com/...
2024-05-04 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at AI companies gathering data from real people to create “digital twins”, to use as fashion models, focus group members, or clinical trial participants

AI that can predict how specific humans will look, act and feel could do the jobs of fashion models, focus group members and clinical trial participants

2024-04-10
We just released improvements to GPT-4 Turbo
2024-04-10 View on X
VentureBeat

OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in its API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling

As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is the nexus of modern software development that sits atop tech platforms …

2024-03-31
Our early findings from an initial evaluation of Voice Engine, a model that generates speech closely resembling the source speaker's voice from text input and a 15-second audio sample. https://openai.com/...
2024-03-31 View on X
TechCrunch

OpenAI debuts Voice Engine, which lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second sample, available to around 10 partners, including HeyGen

but Won't Release the Tech Yet Cade Metz / New York Times : OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI holds back wide release ...