- The former CTO launched from Openai, Mira Murati, for the first time, its new start, Fending Machine Labs, last week.
- The startup aims to raise $ 1 billion with an evaluation of about 9 billion dollars, according to sources familiar with the matter.
- A spokesman for Moratti refused to comment.
Think Machine Labs aims to raise a $ 9 billion financing round of approximately $ 9 billion, sources familiar with the issue of Business Insider told.
The tour is still in progress, and details can change. A spokesman for Moratti refused to comment.
Evaluating 9 billion dollars is unusually high for starting less than a year, but investors She was eager To support startups AI, especially those founded by former Openai employees.
Moratti spent previously Six and a half years In Openai, where she worked as CTO, she works to develop ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence research initiatives. She was briefly appointed as the temporary CEO in November 2023 after the Board of Directors of Openai Sami Al -Tamman, a move that sparked the disturbances within the company. After re -custody as an executive president, Moratti resumed her role as CTO.V
What MURATI would do exactly after leaving Openai in the past year. Parly Silicon Valley was a favorite in recent months, with a few details to the company He left the ghost last week.
in Blog postMURATI has set the startup as artificial intelligence research and the product laboratory that focuses on making artificial intelligence easier.
“To bridge the gaps, we build a laboratory of thinking machines to make artificial intelligence systems more understandable, customized and able in general,” Moratti wrote.
Murati has recruited a long list of engineers and researchers of artificial intelligence from the former employer, Openai, Meta and Anthropic. Many former co -workers in Moratti, including John Shuelman, who participated in the creation of ChatGPT; Jonathan Lashman, formerly head of the Openai private projects; Barrett Zouf, Creator participating in ChatGPT; Alexander Kirillov, who worked closely with MURATI in a Chatgpt audio position, also works at the Matchines Machines Laboratory.
Murati is one of the former executives Openai who went to their private companies. Senior scientist and former founder in Openai Ilya Sutskfs left the company In May 2024 and Superinteigence Inc. Soon after departure. DARIO and Daniela Amodei also worked in Openai and founded Anthropor in 2021.
