Mira Murati
Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab. On 2 shows, 1 appearance, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Mira Murati is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab and previously served as the Chief Technology Officer and interim CEO of OpenAI. Before OpenAI, she held product and engineering leadership roles at Tesla, where she worked on the Model X, and at Leap Motion.
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18said about them ↓ Everything Mira Murati said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Murati: Scaling RLHF alone might be sufficient to solve AI hallucinations
“And we also wanted to figure out the issue of hallucinations, which is always an extremely hard problem. But I do think that with this method of tree enforcement learning with human feedback, maybe that is all we need if we push this hard enough.”
Murati: AGI will be the most important technology humanity builds
“There's not going to be a more important technology that we all build than AGI.”
Murati: OpenAI had already trained GPT-4 before releasing ChatGPT
“One thing that people forget is that actually at this time we had already trained GPT-IV. And so internally at OpenAI, we were very excited about GPT-IV and sort of Put Chagipiti in the rearview mirror.”
Murati: Developing AGI in a lab vacuum without user feedback is impossible
“It would not be possible to just, you know, sit in a lab and develop this thing in a vacuum without feedback from users from the real world.”
Murati: No evidence that scaling compute and data is slowing AI progress
“So there isn't any evidence that we will not get much better, much more capable models as we continue to scale them across the axis of data and compute.”
Murati: Reaching AGI will likely require breakthroughs beyond pure model scaling
“Whether that takes you all the way to AGI or not, that's a different question. There are probably some other breakthroughs and advancements needed along the way, but I think there's still a long way to go in In the scaling laws and to really gather a lot of be…”
Murati: Current AI models perform most tasks at a human intern level
“With fine-tuning, you can get a lot, obviously but in general, I think we're sort of And most tasks kind of like intern level, I would say that's what I generally say.”
Murati: AI systems will perform more human work autonomously
“The trajectory is one where these AI systems will be doing more and more of the work that we're doing, and they'll be able to operate autonomously, but we will need to provide direction and guidance and oversee.”
Murati: AI market will feature a diverse range of models
“You can see even today, you know, we make a lot of models available through our API and from the various, from the very small models to our frontier models, and people don't always need to use The most powerful, the most capable model. Sometimes they just need…”
Murati: Solving AI hallucinations with browsing and citation is achievable
“And there is a ton of work that needs to happen here and maybe introducing browsing so you can get fresh information and you can cite information and solve hallucinations. I don't think that's impossible. I think that's achievable.”
Murati: OpenAI feared ChatGPT was not good enough a week before launch
“It's a strategy that we, we've been using from the beginning and also with ChatGPT where, you know, the week before we were worried that it wasn't good enough. And we also, what happened, you know, we put it out there and then people Told us it is good enough …”
Murati: ChatGPT was originally released to gather research feedback for GPT-4
“One of the main things was actually to put chat GPT in the hands of researchers out there that could give us feedback since we had this dialogue modality. And so this was the original intent to actually get feedback from researchers and use it to make GPT-IV m…”
Murati: AI models could become reliable very quickly
“I think though that it's important to Pay attention to this emerging capabilities, even if they're highly unreliable. And especially for people that, you know, are building companies today, you really want to think about, okay, what, what's somewhat possible t…”
Mira Murati: Building good products on AI models is incredibly difficult
“There is a lot of focus right now on building more models, but, you know, building good products on top of these models is incredibly difficult.”
Murati: OpenAI and DeepMind were the only AGI-focused labs
“There were two places at the time that were laser focused on this issue and OpenAI and DeepMind.”
Murati: OpenAI charter defines AGI as autonomous execution of most intellectual work
“In our chart, OpenAI Charter, we define it as a computer system, basically, that is able to perform autonomously the majority of intellectual work.”
Murati: ChatGPT uses same core model as OpenAI API plus RLHF
“It's fundamentally the same technology, maybe with a small difference, with reinforcement learning, with human feedback. For ChatGPT, but it's fundamentally the same technology, and the reaction, and the ability to grab people's imagination, and to get them to…”
Murati: WebGPT was the direct retrieval-based precursor to ChatGPT
“The precursor to ChatGPT was actually another project that we called WebGPT, and it used, ah, retrieval. To be able to get information and cite sources.”
Murati: Future AI models will expand pre-training into multimodal inputs
“The world is not just in text, it's also in images, so I think That will certainly expand in, in that direction, and we'll have these bigger models that will have all these modalities and that's kind of the pre-training part of the work, where we really want t…”
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All-In 13
the a16z Podcast 4
2026 9 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Can the AI Industry Regulate Itself? Stripe Wants PayPal, China Catches Up, NY Bans Datacenters
- Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- The Fight Over Open Source AI, Anthropic's $1.5B Payout, NYC Socialists: Evictions = Violence?
- Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration
- Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Thinking Machines Lab | 0 +1 | 0 | — | full record on All-In → |