Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI Inc., was interviewed by “The Circuit with Emily Chang” on Monday, April 4, 2023, in San Francisco, California, USA.
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Mira Murati, OpenAI's chief technology officer, said Wednesday that she is leaving the company after six and a half years.
“After careful consideration, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI,” she wrote in a memo to OpenAI, also published on X, adding, “It is never a good idea to leave a place one holds dear. An ideal time, but now this moment feels right.
Mulati is the latest in a growing number of senior executives to leave the high-value startup. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and former security chief Jan Leike announced their departures in May. Co-founder John Schulman said last month he was leaving to join rival Anthropic.
Mulati also wrote that she is “leaving because I want to create time and space to pursue my own exploration. My primary focus at this time is to do everything I can to ensure a smooth transition and maintain the momentum we have built.”
OpenAI, the Microsoft-backed startup behind ChatGPT Search GPTThe company is currently seeking a round of financing that would value the company at more than $150 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Thrive Capital is leading the round and plans to invest $1 billion, with Tiger Global also planning to invest. Microsoft, Nvidia and Apple It is said We are also discussing investment matters.
Although OpenAI has been in rapid growth mode since launching ChatGPT in late 2022, it has also been riddled with controversy and high-level employee departures, with some current and former employees worried that the company is growing too fast and cannot operate safely.
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