Three more execs out at OpenAI, including technology chief Mira Murati
Mira Murati, the outgoing Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach,
OpenAI’s executive exodus is continuing with three top leaders announcing their exits Wednesday, including Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati.
Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday afternoon in a post on X that she is leaving the company. Shortly after, OpenAI’s Chief Research Officer Bob McGrew and Vice President of Research Barret Zoph also announced their decisions to exit.
“My six-and-a-half years with the OpenAI team have been an extraordinary privilege,” Murati said in a note to the OpenAI team, which she posted to X. “There’s never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right.”
The Wednesday departures are just the latest in a string of executives who have recently left OpenAI. The leadership shakeup comes as the ChatGPT-maker attempts to forge a controversial path to growth, including making it easier to raise funds from investors and generate revenue.
The company, which was created as a non-profit research lab and built a for-profit arm, has been mulling a restructuring that could lead to more returns for investors. OpenAI is reportedly in talks about a new fundraising round that could value the firm at $150 billion, Bloomberg and others have reported.
