OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said on Wednesday she is leaving the company after ChatGPT, joining a growing list of high-profile departures. Murati called it an “extraordinary privilege” to work at the San Francisco-based company for more than six years and described her decision to leave as difficult in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
“There’s no ideal time to walk away from a place, but the moment felt right,” Muratti said in the post.
“I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
OpenAI chief Sam Altman responded to Murati’s post, thanking Murati for his help in building the company and promising to provide details about the transition plan soon.
Murati is the latest influential member of the OpenAI team to step down from his position.
Co-founder Greg Brockman is on an extended leave and OpenAI founder John Schulman has joined rival AI company Anthropic, according to a report by The Information.
A product team leader, whom OpenAI had brought with it from Meta, also left, the report said.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever exited OpenAI earlier this year after a boardroom battle temporarily forced Altman out of the company.
OpenAI released a new series of artificial intelligence models earlier this month that are designed to spend more time thinking — in the hope that generative AI chatbots will provide more accurate and beneficial responses.
Known as Strawberry, the new model is designed to tackle complex tasks and solve more challenging problems in science, coding and maths – something that previous models were criticised for failing to consistently deliver.
Unlike their predecessors, these models have been trained to refine their thinking processes, try different approaches, and recognize mistakes before giving a final answer.
OpenAI’s effort to improve “thinking” in its models is a response to the persistent problem of “confusion” in AI chatbots.
This refers to their tendency to generate persuasive but inaccurate content, which has somewhat cooled enthusiasm for ChatGPT-style AI features among business customers.
This new release comes at a time when OpenAI is raising funds that could lead to its valuation being around $150 billion, which would make it one of the most valuable private companies in the world, according to US media.
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