Former Openai Cto Mira Murati Launches New Ai Start-up

The latest entrant into the crowded AI start-up space wants to build artificial intelligence systems that encode human values and aim at a broader number of applications than rivals, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

It shows the ability of Murati, a longtime executive at OpenAI, to poach top researchers from her previous employer.

Roughly two-thirds of the company comprises former OpenAI employees - including Barret Zoph, a prominent researcher who left the ChatGPT maker on the same day as Murati in late September. Zoph will serve as the start-ups technology chief.

OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is the start-ups chief scientist. Schulman left OpenAI for rival Anthropic in August, saying that he wanted to focus on AI alignment. AI alignment refers to a process of encoding human values into AI models to make them safer and more reliable - a key focus for Muratis start-up.

More OpenAI employees are expected to join the company, said sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private matters. The company has been in talks to raise venture capital funding from investors, Reuters previously reported.