Murati is heading up Thinking Machines Lab as CEO. OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is the company’s chief scientist, and Barret Zoph, OpenAI’s ex-chief research officer, is the CTO. In a blog post shared with TechCrunch, Thinking Machines Lab wrote that while AI capabilities have advanced dramatically, “key gaps” remain.

Mira Murati officially launched its Thinking Machines Lab AI startup, which is mostly staffed by former high-ranking ChatGPT AI engineers.

Thinking Machines Lab has hired a bunch of leaders from OpenAI. After her sudden departure from OpenAI last fall, ex-CTO Mira Murati vanished from public view to start something new. Now, she is ready to share some details about what she’s working on.