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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving firm to do her ‘own exploration’

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Mira Murati at an interview in San Francisco, California, on 4 April 2023. Photograph: Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images

In a surprise move, OpenAI’s chief technology officer announced on Wednesday that she would soon leave the company after six and a half years.

In a note shared with the company and then posted to Twitter/X, Mira Murati wrote she was leaving the tech company behind ChatGPT. “After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI … I’m stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” she said.

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