Mira Murati spoke about her new AI company

Mira Murati spoke with Bloomberg in San Francisco on Thursday. It was her first big media appearance in 18 months. She is the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab. The company raised money and hired researchers. It also shipped one product called Tinker. Tinker is an API for fine-tuning open-source AI models. Murati used to work at OpenAI. She was the CTO there for six years. In November 2023, OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman. Murati became the interim CEO for five days. She said the company would have "imploded" without her. She also said she felt clear about her decisions. But she said she would have pushed for more information. During the interview, she talked about new AI models. She called them "interaction models." These models process audio, text, and video in 200-millisecond intervals. They can understand interruptions and pauses. She did not give a release date. She also talked about trust. She did not say if she trusts Sam Altman. She worried about too few people making big decisions. She said good people make bad calls. She also talked about researchers leaving her company. She said this is normal for a new company. She said she does not think about killing competitors. She wakes up and thinks about other things. She talked about the future of AI. She said the future is not predetermined. She said humans must not take their hands off the wheel.