Mira Murati

Overview

Mira Murati is the founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab (TML), an AI research lab focused on interactive voice and video AI systems. She was previously CTO of OpenAI.

Timeline

• 2026-05-13-AI-Digest — Murati’s lab, Thinking Machines Lab, released TML-Interaction-Small on May 12 as a limited research preview — a 276B-parameter MoE with 12B active parameters designed for sub-half-second voice and video interaction. The strategic framing — “interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice” — is the lab’s own positioning on first ship and positions TML as an architectural critique of its founder’s former employer’s approach to real-time voice.

Key Developments

1. Thinking Machines Lab First Shipment (May 2026): TML-Interaction-Small (276B MoE, 12B active) released as limited research preview with 0.40s response latency floor — the first model from Murati’s post-OpenAI lab, packaged as an architectural argument against scaffolded VAD/TTS voice systems.