OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday that she is leaving the company behind ChatGPT, adding to a growing list of high-level departures.
Murati called her more than six years at the San Francisco-based company “a great privilege” and described her decision to leave as difficult in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“There is never an ideal time to walk away from a place you love, but the time is right,” Murati said in the post.
“I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
OpenAI head Sam Altman responded to Murati’s post thanking him for what Murati helped build and promising details of a transition plan soon.
Murati is the latest influential member of the OpenAI team to step down.
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Co-founder Greg Brockman is on an extended leave of absence, and fellow OpenAI founder John Shulman has left for AI industry rival Anthropic, according to a report in The Information.
A product team leader that OpenAI had poached from Meta also left, the report said.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever left OpenAI earlier this year after a boardroom battle that led to Altman being temporarily ousted from the company.
OpenAI earlier this month launched a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking – with the hope that the AI ββchatbots they create will provide more accurate and helpful answers.
The new model, nicknamed Strawberry, is designed to tackle complex tasks and solve more difficult problems in science, coding and math — something previous models have been criticized for failing to deliver consistently.
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Unlike their predecessors, these models are trained to refine their thought processes, try different methods and recognize mistakes before developing a final answer.
OpenAI’s push to improve the “thinking” in its model is a response to the persistent problem of “hallucinations” in AI chatbots.
This refers to their tendency to create persuasive but flawed content that has somewhat cooled enthusiasm for ChatGPT-style AI features among business customers.
The new release came as OpenAI raised funds that could see it valued at around $150 billion, which would make it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, according to US media.
Source: AFP