en.Wedoany.com Reported - Mira Murati, former Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI and founder of Thinking Machines Lab, gave an interview to Bloomberg in San Francisco, marking her first major media appearance in about 18 months. Having rarely appeared publicly before, she used this interview to introduce the new direction of her AI company.
Thinking Machines Lab has been operating behind the scenes for over a year, completing fundraising, recruiting researchers, and launching Tinker, an API product for fine-tuning open-source AI models. Meanwhile, competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI continue to vie for talent, customers, and industry attention. Murati stated that in such a competitive environment, the company needs to make timely public appearances to maintain market awareness.
Murati previewed what Thinking Machines calls an "interactive model," describing it as a fundamentally different AI interface. Instead of the turn-based prompt-and-response model common in current AI products, the company's model is designed to process continuous streams of audio, text, and video at 200-millisecond intervals, enabling near-real-time capture of interruptions, thought corrections, and pauses in human communication. Murati cautiously described this as a first step rather than a finished product, without disclosing a specific release date.
Murati also addressed her experience serving as interim CEO of OpenAI following the board's firing of Sam Altman in November 2023. She stated that at every moment of the event, she was clear about her decisions, with protecting the mission and the team being the consistent thread throughout. She believes that without her involvement during those five days and the subsequent period, the company would have "imploded." However, she acknowledged that clarity of intent does not equate to clarity of consequences, and in retrospect, she would have worked harder to secure more information, a better transition plan, and greater transparency.
When asked if she still trusts her former boss Altman, Murati sidestepped the question, instead expressing concerns about the excessive concentration of key industry decisions in the hands of a few. She argued that the lack of structural checks and balances is more important than the character of individual leaders, noting that well-intentioned organizations can also go astray, and governance issues deserve more attention than virtue issues.
Regarding the recent departure of several prominent researchers from Thinking Machines, Murati downplayed the matter. She stated that building a frontier AI lab from scratch compresses years of normal organizational turbulence into a few months. She also acknowledged that nine-figure compensation packages can influence personnel retention in the AI talent war, but emphasized that this is usually not the sole reason. On her competitive instincts, she said: "When I wake up in the morning, I don't think about how to beat the competition."
On the overall direction of AI, Murati, who was born in Albania and speaks with an Eastern European accent, refuted the framework that dystopia or utopia is inevitable, arguing that neither outcome is predetermined and that the current period will determine the future direction. She repeatedly mentioned that if humans relinquish control over AI too early, the future will be vastly different—and not for the better.
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