Co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati
Mira Murati is co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and a former OpenAI CTO. Her work spans AI research, products, and customizable systems.
About Mira Murati
Mira Murati is co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company. The company works on AI systems that people can customize and use collaboratively, with research spanning model capabilities, multimodal interaction, and infrastructure.
Before Thinking Machines Lab, she served as chief technology officer at OpenAI. OpenAI's 2022 leadership announcement described her responsibilities across research, products, and partnerships, including work supporting the release of DALL-E research.
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6 articles name Mira Murati, excluding author credits.
- Neil Chowdhury Joins Thinking Machines Lab to Work on Open-Weight AI Safety →
Former OpenAI safety researcher and Transluce founding engineer Neil Chowdhury has joined Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab. His stated focus makes this more than a routine hire: safety that survives open weights, fine-tuning, and distributed control.
- Artificial Movie: What Andrew Garfield’s Sam Altman Film Says About AI →
Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial turns OpenAI’s 2023 leadership crisis into a theatrical drama. We separate confirmed film details from the real AI-governance questions underneath them.
- TIME100 AI 2026: the omissions are the editorial thesis →
TIME published the 2026 TIME100 AI on August 27 and the replies filled with the same complaint: no Jensen Huang, no Demis Hassabis, no Karpathy, but Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck made it. Read the list carefully and the pattern is deliberate — Nvidia's seat went to its head of sustainability. explainx.ai breaks down what TIME actually measured and which of your daily tools have their makers on the list.
- Inkling Is Free on OpenRouter With a 1M Context Window — the Fine Print →
A headline reading "Thinky Machines makes Inkling MoE models free on OpenRouter with 1M context" is trending — and it's a garbled reference to Thinking Machines Lab, whose 975B-parameter Inkling has carried a free, rate-limited OpenRouter endpoint since its July 17, 2026 launch. Here's what "free" actually means, and what changed versus five weeks ago.
- DOE Launches Genesis Open Models: A US Government Open-Weight AI Program →
The US Department of Energy opened a public contribution portal for "Genesis Open Models," a new open-weight AI program for science built with Arcee AI, on the same week DeepSeek's open-weight models kept dominating cost and benchmark discussions. explainx.ai breaks down what the program actually is, who can contribute, and why a government-run open-weight effort is a structurally different move than another lab release.