Mira Murati Appointed As Temporary CEO Of OpenAI, Who Is She?

Mira Murati, CEO of temporary OpenAI (photo: X @miramurati).

JAKARTA - On November 17, OpenAI's board of directors sacked the company's founder Sam Altman, who has shocked the world of technology. They then appointed Mira Murati as CEO of OpenAI temporarily.

Since then, the council has faced strong criticism from clients and major startup investors. According to a Bloomberg report, efforts to return Altman as CEO have involved Microsoft, OpenAI's biggest shareholder.

On the other hand, Murati is the interim CEO, has joined OpenAI since 2018. At that time, the company operated as a non-profit research center but soon transformed into a business company behind the ChatGPT global chatbot.

Mira Murati, 34, reportedly spent last summer as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, followed by positions in engineering atELuc Aerospace and Tesla. This appears in an explanation in the bio Women's Agenda based on its LinkedIn profile which is unfortunately no longer available.

Murati was reportedly appointed vice president of products and engineering at Ultraleap in 2016. At OpenAI, he joined as vice president of AI applied and partners, before rising to become senior vice president of research, products and partners, and finally to his role as chief technology officer in 2022.

The interim CEO was born in Albania and earned the title from Dartmouth College, an Ivy League agency, in 2012. According to The Wall Street Journal, Murati is a "product engineering" who believes that AI should not be limited to research projects.

"We need to bring a different voice, like philosophers, social scientists, artists, and people from humanities," he said in an interview with TIME Magazine earlier this year. According to Murati, regulators should be included in the "different voice" group.

"It is important for OpenAI and companies like us to bring this into public awareness in a controlled and responsible way. But we are a small group of people and we need a lot of input in this system and a lot of input that goes beyond technology - definitely regulators and the government as well as everyone else", he said in the interview.

He is behind the development and management of some of OpenAI's most innovative projects, including the DALL-3 image-making model, the Whisperer voice recognition tool, and the company's latest version of the GPT-4 chatbot.

A review of Murati's profile on X (formerly Twitter) reflects her involvement in product development at OpenAI. New features and product updates are the only topics she has discussed on the social media platform.

Murati hasn't spoken publicly since the latest developments at OpenAI. He no longer has a LinkedIn account, and his last post on X was only on November 6, when ChatGPT Turbo was released.