Mira Murati

Ermira "Mira" Murati (born 16 December 1988) is an Albanian-American business executive.[2] She is a co-founder and chief executive of Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company she launched in February 2025.[3] She served as chief technology officer of OpenAI from May 2022 to September 2024 and, for three days in November 2023, as the company's interim chief executive during the brief removal of Sam Altman. She previously worked as a product manager at Tesla and led product and engineering at Leap Motion. Murati was born on 16 December 1988 in Vlorë, Albania.[4][5][6] She is fluent in English and Italian.[7] At age 16, she attended Pearson College UWC on Vancouver Island in Canada for high school on the Davis United World College Scholars Program, from which she graduated in 2007 with an International Baccalaureate diploma.[8][9] After high school, Murati studied at a dual-degree undergraduate program, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College in 2011[10][11] and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College in 2012.[12][13][14][15] Murati interned in 2011 as a summer analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, Japan.[4] She then briefly worked for Zodiac Aerospace as an intern before joining the electric car company Tesla in 2013 as a product manager on the Model X.[4] From 2016 to 2018, she worked for the augmented reality start-up Leap Motion (now Ultraleap).[4] In 2018, she joined OpenAI as vice president of applied AI and partnerships.[16][17] She became chief technology officer (CTO) in May 2022.[18] She led OpenAI's work on ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Sora, while overseeing its research, product and safety teams.[16][19][20][21] Murati worked on several of OpenAI's notable products, such as the Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) series of language models.[22][23] During a June 2024 discussion at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering, Murati said some creative jobs may disappear, qualif