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Mira Murati Unveils Her Startup’s A.I. Model in First Interview Since OpenAI

With $2 billion in funding and a bench of former OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic talent, Murati is building a new lab around more collaborative, multimodal A.I.

Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, left the A.I. giant in late 2024 to found her own startup, Thinking Machines Lab, and raised a staggering $2 billion in less than a year. In her first media interview since founding the startup, Murati revealed what she has been building: “interaction models,” or multimodal A.I. systems that process audio, text and video simultaneously and collaborate with humans in near real time, without waiting for prompts. “I have very high conviction that the way to continue building frontier A.I. systems is to [create] systems that are not just autonomously advancing and leaving civilization behind, but are more like a tandem bike,” she said onstage at........

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