OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who announced her resignation last month, is raising VC funding for a new AI startup, Reuters reports.
The startup will reportedly focus on building AI products based on proprietary models and could raise more than $100 million in this round.
When she left, Murati wrote to “I am stepping back because I want to create time and space for my own exploration,” she said, but did not reveal specific plans.
Before joining OpenAI as Vice President of Applied AI and Partnerships in 2018, Murati worked at Tesla and Leap Motion. She was promoted to CTO in 2022 and was also named interim CEO during the brief dismissal of co-founder and CEO Sam Altman.
Murati is one of several OpenAI executives who have recently resigned. OpenAI’s chief research officer and vice president of research announced her departure just hours after her departure. A week later, OpenAI said it had raised $6.6 billion in its largest VC round ever.
