Who Is Mira Murati? The Ex-OpenAI CTO Building Thinking Machines Lab
Mira Murati is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and the former chief technology officer of OpenAI, where she led the development of ChatGPT, DALL-E and Sora. Born in Vlorë, Albania in 1988, she rose from a product role at Tesla to running the technology behind the most widely used AI products on earth, then walked away in September 2024 to build her own lab. In June 2026 she resurfaced after roughly 18 months of near-silence, unveiling a new class of AI she calls “interaction models.” This biography covers who Mira Murati is, where she comes from, and how an engineer from a small Albanian coastal city became […]
