Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, is one of several employees leaving the company, triggering a leadership shake-up at the AI start-up as it discusses changing its corporate structure.
In a message shared with employees on Wednesday, Murati said: “After much reflection, I have made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI.” Bob McGrew, chief research officer, and Barret Zoph, vice-president of research, also said on Wednesday that they were leaving the company.
It is the latest blow to the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence start-up, which has had several high-profile departures this year, including founders John Schulman and Ilya Sutskever. Schulman has joined rival Anthropic, while Sutskever has launched his own venture aimed at building “safe” AI models.