Mira Murati, chief technology officer of OpenAI Inc., during an interview on “The Circuit with Emily Chang” in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, April 4, 2023.
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OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after six and a half years.
“After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI,” she wrote in a memo to OpenAI, which she also published on X, adding, “There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right.”
Murati is the latest in a growing line of high-level execs to depart the high-valued startup. OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever and former safety leader Jan Leike announced their departures in May. Co-founder John Schulman said last month that he was leaving to join rival Anthropic.
Murati also wrote that she is “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration. For now, my primary focus is doing everything in my power to ensure a smooth transition, maintaining the momentum we’ve built.”
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