The OpenAI rival will focus on strong infrastructure, multimodality and human-AI collaboration (as opposed to purely agentic systems).

Other key executives on Murati’s team include John Schulman, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and will be chief scientist at Thinking Machines Lab, and Barret Zoph, who served as O

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, it’s focused on AI. Called Thinking Machine Labs, the startup, which came out of stealth today, intends to build tooling to “make AI work for [people’s] unique needs and goals,