Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration
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Summary
Former OpenAI CTO, Mira Murati, has launched AI research and product company, Thinking Machines Lab.
The startup’s focus is on “multimodal” capabilities, and human-AI collaboration, rather than solely agentic systems.
It will aim to “advance AI by making it broadly useful and understandable through solid foundations, open science and practical applications” says Murati.
The company’s website states that it wants to build more “flexible, adaptable, and personalised” AI systems.
It plans to achieve this by focusing on three salient areas, developing strong foundations to build more capable AI systems, fostering a culture of open science to help the field understand and improve these systems, and lastly, adapt and customize AI systems to work for the needs of its users.
The company’s small team of engineers and scientists has already created popular open-source projects, including PyTorch, the OpenAI Gym Python library, the Fairseq sequence modeling toolkit, and Meta AI’s Segment Anything.