# Mira Murati

> Mira Murati is the Albanian-American engineer and former OpenAI chief technology officer who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab. After helping lead the releases of ChatGPT, GPT-4 and other OpenAI products, she is building customizable AI systems and tools for closer collaboration between people and machines.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Thinking Machines Lab
- **Organizations:** Thinking Machines Lab, OpenAI, Leap Motion, Tesla, United Nations High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence
- **From:** Vlorë, Albania
- **Nationality:** Albanian-American
- **Education:** International Baccalaureate, Pearson College UWC, Bachelor of Arts, Colby College, Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical engineering, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering
- **Known for:** Led research, product and safety teams as OpenAI chief technology officer and helped lead the releases of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, Codex and Sora., Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and launched Tinker, a platform for fine-tuning AI models., Oversaw the lab's first open-weights model release, Inkling, in July 2026.

## Career timeline

- **2005-2007** — Attended Pearson College UWC in Canada after winning a scholarship.
- **2013-2016** — Worked at Tesla on the Model X and early Autopilot systems.
- **2016-2018** — Led product and engineering work at Leap Motion.
- **2018** — Joined OpenAI.
- **2022** — Became OpenAI's chief technology officer and helped lead the public release of ChatGPT.
- **2023** — Served briefly as OpenAI's interim CEO during its November leadership crisis.
- **2024** — Received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth and left OpenAI in September.
- **2025** — Unveiled Thinking Machines Lab in February and launched Tinker in October.
- **2026** — The lab previewed interaction models in May and released open-weights Inkling in July.

## Achievements

- Led research, product and safety teams as OpenAI chief technology officer and helped lead the releases of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, Codex and Sora.
- Co-founded Thinking Machines Lab and launched Tinker, a platform for fine-tuning AI models.
- Oversaw the lab's first open-weights model release, Inkling, in July 2026.
- Served on the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.
- Received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College in 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Thinking Machines Lab published research on using task expertise in reinforcement learning and announced safety research grants.
- **2026-07** — The lab released the open-weights Inkling model and introduced Inkling-Small.
- **2026-06** — Murati discussed human-AI collaboration and the lab's direction at Bloomberg Tech in San Francisco.
- **2026-05** — The lab previewed interaction models that handle continuous audio, video and text.
- **2026-03** — Thinking Machines Lab announced a long-term strategic partnership with NVIDIA.

## Links

- Website: https://thinkingmachines.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mira-murati-4b39a066/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/miramurati

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Last updated: 2026-09-29