Mira Murati is an AI researcher and entrepreneur who co-founded and leads Thinking Machines Lab after resigning as Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI in September 2024. Mira Murati's Twitter Score is 413 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #533 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Mira Murati previously worked at OpenAI for over six years, joining in 2018 as VP of applied AI and partnerships before being promoted to CTO in 2022. During her tenure she led work on ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Codex, and briefly served as interim CEO in November 2023 following a board-level leadership transition. She departed OpenAI in September 2024.
Mira Murati co-founded Thinking Machines Lab, which describes itself as an artificial intelligence research and product company building AI systems that are more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable. Per TechCrunch, the company launched in February 2025 with Mira Murati as CEO, John Schulman as chief scientist, and Barret Zoph as CTO. According to the Financial Times and Wired, Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion at a $12 billion post-money valuation, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Nvidia, AMD, Accel, and Jane Street, among others. In March 2026, Thinking Machines Lab and Nvidia announced a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of next-generation Nvidia Vera Rubin systems.
Mira Murati has 948,627 followers as of August 2026 on X and has published 394 posts. Mira Murati has been mentioned by 128 accounts a total of 310 times.
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