Mira Murati
Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, the AI startup with a $90 billion valuation.
This is the story of a woman who became the CTO of one of AI’s biggest names at a time when women constitute only 22% of the AI workforce.
Having graduated from Dartmouth College with a mechanical engineering degree, her career trajectory is quite interesting. She
- interned at Goldman Sachs as a Summer Analyst,
- worked as an Advanced Concepts Engineer at Zodiac Aerospace,
- worked as Senior Product Manager for Model X at Tesla,
- and led the product team at Leap Motion before joining OpenAI.
At OpenAI, she started as VP of Applied AI & Partnerships, moving on to SVP of Research before becoming the CTO in 2022.
She places particular focus on AI in healthcare and education and serves on the board of Unlearn.AI, a startup focused on developing machine-learning methods for speeding up disease diagnosis and treatment.
Her achievements include:
- featured in Fortune’s 100 most powerful women in business.
- earned the WTF Innovators award for commercialization of advanced AI models
- featured in Business Insider’s - The AI 100 2023: The top people in artificial intelligence
At OpenAI, she has overseen the creation of AI models that almost the entire world is familiar with, like ChatGPT, the image generator DALL-E 2 and 3, and GPT-4.
Her career trajectory is inspiring, and I particularly admire her focus on AI safety and its use cases in helping humanity. As she put it, “The downside [of competition in AI] is a race to the bottom on safety".
Last Updated: May 2024
