Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly raising funds for a new artificial intelligence startup

Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, who announced her departure last month, is raising VC funds for a new AI startup, in accordance with Reuters.

According to reports, this startup will deal with constructing AI products based by itself models and will raise over $100 million on this round.

After her departure, Murati wrote in X that in its recent releases, OpenAI “has fundamentally changed the way AI systems learn and reason through complex problems.” She said: “I’m leaving because I want to create time and space for my own exploration,” but didn’t provide details of her plans.

Before joining OpenAI as vice chairman of applied artificial intelligence and partnerships in 2018, Murati worked at Tesla and Leap Motion. She was promoted to CTO in 2022, and was even named interim CEO through the transient ouster of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.

Murati is considered one of several OpenAI executives who’ve recently left; OpenAI’s director of research and vice chairman of research announced their departures a few hours afterward. Per week later, OpenAI announced that it had raised $6.6 billion in the most important VC round of all time.