Who is OpenAI’s new CEO
The company’s president, Greg Brockman, resigned after OpenAI took the unexpected decision to fire CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mira Murati was named as the company’s acting CEO.
According to Bloomberg, Murati expressed her gratitude and humility at being given the opportunity to manage the company in a memo.
But exactly who is Murati?
According to TechCrunch, Murati, who graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in mechanical engineering, started her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then worked for the French aerospace company Zodiac Aerospace.
Greg Brockman, the president of the company, resigned after OpenAI abruptly fired CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer (CTO), was appointed as the interim CEO.
In a memo, Murati reportedly acknowledged her appreciation and humility for being granted the chance to lead the business, according to Bloomberg.
But who is Murati exactly?
TechCrunch claims that Murati, a mechanical engineering graduate from Dartmouth College, began her career as an intern at Goldman Sachs before working for the French aerospace firm Zodiac Aerospace.
Although OpenAI is looking for a new permanent CEO, Murati, the company’s interim head, thinks multimodal models—like GPT-4 with Vision, which can comprehend both text and visual context—are a promising first step toward ultra-capable AI.
Murati also appears to be a strong proponent of publicly testing this type of AI in order to find flaws and perhaps even discover new uses.
“One of the reasons that we wanted to pursue DALL-E was to get to a more robust understanding of the world, to have these models understand the world the way that we do,” Murati stated to Fast Company.
By exposing technology to the real world, you can see how people use it and identify its limitations. You may then utilize this knowledge to inform future technological advancements.
“The other dimension is that you can actually see how much [the technology is] moving the needle in solving real-world problems or whether it is a novelty.”
Murati is also already projecting strength; on Friday, during an all-company meeting, she gave the assurance that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and CTO Kevin Scott, who is among OpenAI’s strongest supporters, have “utmost confidence” in the company’s path.
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