Mira Murati talks to Bloomberg

Mira Murati talks to Bloomberg in San Francisco. This is her first big talk in 18 months. She is the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab. The company makes AI tools. One tool is Tinker. Tinker helps people change AI models. Murati was the CTO of OpenAI. She worked there for six years. In 2023, OpenAI fired Sam Altman. Murati became the CEO for five days. She says the company would have "imploded" without her. Now she talks about her new company. She says AI models can work in 200-millisecond intervals. This means they can understand human talk very fast. She does not say when her new product will come. She also talks about trust. She does not say if she trusts Sam Altman. She worries about too few people making big decisions. She says good people make bad calls. She also talks about researchers leaving her company. She says this is normal. She says she does not think about killing competitors. She wakes up and thinks about other things. She talks about the future of AI. She says the future is not good or bad yet. People must be careful. She says humans should not take their hands off the wheel. This means people must control AI.
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