Mira Murati
Mira Murati is a cofounder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab. She studied engineering before working in product and engineering at Tesla and Leap Motion. At OpenAI, she served as chief technology officer and led teams behind DALL-E and ChatGPT. She briefly became interim CEO during the November 2023 leadership transition, then returned to the CTO role. Thinking Machines Lab was founded in December 2024. The company describes its work around customizable AI and collaboration between people and machines. Its Tinker service provides an interface for adapting open models while handling distributed training infrastructure.
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Timeline
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Engineering education
Studying how to build things
Murati has an Albanian background and studied at Colby College and Dartmouth, where she trained in engineering.
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By 2023
Leading the teams behind AI products
In 2023, Murati was OpenAI CTO and led teams behind DALL-E and ChatGPT.
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November 2023
A brief interim CEO role
OpenAI’s board appoints Murati interim CEO when it announces Altman’s removal.
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November 2023–June 2024
Returning to engineering leadership
OpenAI restores her CTO role in November 2023; she visits Dartmouth for a discussion and honorary degree in June 2024.
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December 2024 onward
Starting Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab was founded in December 2024, with Murati as cofounder and CEO.
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As of 10 October 2026
Making model training accessible
Thinking Machines offers Tinker, an API for fine-tuning open models that handles distributed training infrastructure.
Sources and credits
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