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Mira Murati, the former Openai technology official, has begun a rival of artificial intelligence focused on making technology widely accessible.
Murati, 36, on Tuesday discovered Machines Machines Lab, a product and a research organization that aims to make “the systems of the most understood, personal and generally capable”.
A blog post on its website said “Knowledge of how these systems are trained have focused on key research laboratories, limiting both public discourse on it and people’s ability to use it effectively.”
The San-Francisco-based company has also destroyed the former Openai’s old employees, including co-founder John Schulman, Jonathan Lachman, former special project chief and Barret Zoph, former vice president.
Murati, who temporarily served as the chief executive of Openai during the failed coup against founder Sam Altman, has also hired experienced scholars and engineers in other competitors such as Google, Meta, Mistral and Character who will build models of focused on science and programming.
“Scientific progress is a collective effort,” said Machines Machines Lab. “We believe that we will more effectively advance humanity’s understanding of Him by cooperating with the wider community of scholars and builders.”
She added that she planned to publish technical posts, letters and codes because she believed that “sharing our work would not only benefit from the public but also improve our research culture”.
Murati had worked in Opennai for more than six years, leading the company’s efforts to build chatgpt as a standalone product and working on technical advances from large language models of the company.
In November 2023, Openai’s directors appointed Murati as a temporary chief executive after removing Altman under claims that he was not “honest enough” with the board. Altman returned days later after protests by employees and investors.
Ilya Sutskyr, an Openai associate and leading scientist who was also involved in the coup attempt, has since left the company to begin a start called Safe Superintelligence. It raised $ 1 billion in September to focus on the development of safe systems that have human level or superior intelligence.
