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Mira Murati talks to Bloomberg

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Mira Murati to Bloomberg in San Francisco. This is her first talk in 18 months. She is the CEO of Thinking Machines Lab. The makes AI tools. One is Tinker. Tinker helps 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 would have "imploded" without her. Now she about her new She says AI models can 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 about trust. She does not say if she trusts Sam Altman. She worries about too few making decisions. She says good make bad calls. She also about researchers leaving her She says this is normal. She says she does not think about killing competitors. She wakes up and thinks about other things. She about the of AI. She says the is not good or bad yet. must be careful. She says humans should not take their hands off the wheel. This means must control AI.

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