EX-Openai Cto Mira Murati’s New AI Venture, Thinking Machines LabHas Gained Two New Prominent Advisers: Bob McGrew, Previously Openai’s Chief Research Officer, And Alec Radford, A Former Openai Researcher Behind Many of the Company of the Company ‘ Innovations.
Thinking Machines Lab’s website was quietly updated with McGrew and Radford’s Names Sometime in March. A spokesperson for the startup didn’t immediatily respond to a request for comment.
McGrew Joined Openai as a Member of the Technical Staff in 2017 and was promoted to vp of research in 2018 before assuming the role of Chief Research Officer. He left in September 2024Saying at the time that he intended to take a “break.”
Radford, who departed openai late last year to pursue independent research after Close to a decade at the company, was the lead author of openai’s seminal reserach paper only pre-travened Transformers (GPTS). GPTS Underpin Openai’s Most Popular Products, Including The Company’s AI-Powered Chatbot Platform, Chatgpt. Radford also worked on Several Models in the company’s GPT Series as Well as the Speech Recognition Model Whisper and Dall-E, Openai’s image-generating model.
Thinking Machines Lab Has So far Been Vague About Its Research Agenda and Product Roadmap. But in an announsement in February, the startup said that it intends to build tooling to “Make ai work for [people’s] Unique needs and goals “and to create ai systems that are” More widely undersrstood, customizable, and generally capable ”Thans it it is currently available.
Murati is heading up thinking machines lab as ce. Openai co-founder john schulman is the company’s Chief Scientist, and Barret zophWho Led Model Post-Training at Openai, is the cto.
Murati Left Openai Last October after Six Years at the CompanyShe came to Openai as vp of applied AI and Partnerships. After being promoted to cto in 2022, muti line the company’s work on Chatgpt, Dall-eAnd the code-generating system CodexWhich Powered Early Versions of Github’s Copilot Programming Assistant.
At one point, muti was said to be in talks to raise over $ 100 million from unnamed vc firms for thinking machines lab, which counts dozens of employees from top ai labs including openai and google Deepmind Among Its Ranks.