Mira Murathi’s AI launches prominent former Openai advisers

The new AI endeavor of ex-opnai cto mira Murati, Laboratory for Thinking MachinesHe won two new prominent advisers: Bob McGre, previously chief research director of Openai, and Alec Radford, a former Openai researcher behind many of the company’s more transformative innovations.

Thinking Machines Laboratory Website It was quietly updated with the names of McGru and Radford sometime in March. Starting spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

McGrew joined Openai as a member of technical staff in 2017 and was promoted to Vice President of Research in 2018 before taking on the role of Chief Scientific Officer. He left in September 2024.Saying at a time that he intends to make a “vacation”.

Radford, who left for Openai at the end of last year, to continue independent research after nearly a decade in the company, was a leading author of Openai’s Semen Research Document for GPTS generative transformers (GPTS). GPTS is the basis of Openai’s most popular products, including the AI, Chatgpt chatbot platform. Radford also works on several models in the company’s GPT series, as well as the model for recognition of Whisper and Dall-E, the model of image generation of OpenAi.

So far, Thinking Machines Lab has been unclear about its research program and a roadmap program. But in a message in February, the starter stated that he intends to build a toolkit to “make AI work for (people) unique needs and goals” and create AI systems that are “wider, adaptive and generally capable” by those currently available.

Murati heads to Mishing Machines Lab as CEO. OPENAI co -founder John Schulman is the company’s chief scientist and Barrett ZoffWho runs the model after a workout at Openai is CTO.

Murathi left Openai last October after six years in the companyS She came to Openai as Vice President of Applied AI and partnerships. After being promoted to CTO in 2022, Murati guided the company’s work on Chatgpt., Fromand the system for generating codes Codexthat fed the early versions of GITHUB Copilot Programming assistant.

At one point, Murathi was said to be negotiating more than $ 100 million from unnamed VC companies for Thinking Machines Lab, which reported dozens of staff from the best AI laboratories, including Openai and Google Deepmind, among its ranks.