Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has been poaching AI experts from rival AI companies to build a dream team. For instance, OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is now chief scientist at Murati’s firm, while Barrett Zoph, also from OpenAI, is the startup’s CTO.

OpenAI has spawned yet another AI company. After Anthropic and Safe Superintelligence (SSI) were founded by former OpenAI employees, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has also announced her new AI startup. Named "Thinking Machines",

Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, has tapped about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors such as OpenAI, Meta and Mistral,