In a surprise move, OpenAI today suddenly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and board member, and appointed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who exactly is Mira Moratti?
Moratti, who holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College, previously worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then at Zodiac Aerospace, the French aerospace group. She spent three years at Tesla as senior product manager for the Model
In 2016, Moratti joined Leap Motion, a startup that builds hand and finger motion sensors for computers, as vice president of product and engineering. Moratti wanted to make the experience of interacting with a computer “as intuitive as playing with a ball,” as she puts it Tell Fast company in an interview. But she soon realized that the technology, which relied on a virtual reality headset, was very early.
In 2018, Moratti joined OpenAI as Vice President of Applied AI and Partnerships. After being promoted to CTO in 2022, she led the company’s work on the AI-powered viral chatbot ChatGPT, the AI text-to-image system DALL-E and the code generation system Codex, which powers GitHub’s Copilot product.
So, what kind of interim CEO will Moratti be? Perhaps it will choose not to change the situation while the OpenAI board searches for a permanent replacement. But from what Moratti has said in interviews, it’s clear that she sees multimedia models — that is, models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 with Vision, which can understand the context of images as well as text — as the company’s future and one of the most promising. Pathways to super-powerful artificial intelligence. Furthermore, Moratti seems to be a big believer in testing this type of AI out in the open in order to spot flaws and discover potential new use cases.
“One of the reasons we pursued DALL-E was to get a more robust understanding of the world, to make these models understand the world the way we understand it,” Moratti told Fast Company. “You put the technology in touch with reality; you see how people use it, and what the limitations are; you learn from that; and you can bring it back to developing the technology. The other dimension is that you can actually see how much [the technology is] Move the needle on solving real world problems or whether that’s new.
Moratti shows his strength, for what it’s worth. During a company-wide meeting on Friday, she said It said He told OpenAI employees that Satya Nadella and Kevin Scott — CEO and CTO, respectively, of Microsoft, one of OpenAI’s biggest backers — have “absolute confidence” in OpenAI’s direction. She confirmed that OpenAI has begun searching for a new CEO.