Mira Murati is an Albanian engineer, researcher, and tech executive. From 2018 to 2024, she served as the Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT—the most advanced AI chatbot ever to be deployed to a mass audience—and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company of 2023.

Murati’s interest in AI started back in 2013, when she joined Tesla. At the time, the company was releasing early versions of Autopilot, its AI-enabled driver-assistance software, and working on AI-enabled robots for its factories. At Tesla, Murati led development of Tesla's Model X.

She moved over to Leap Motion in 2016 to work on the startup’s augmented reality system to replace keyboards. As VP of product and engineering, she hoped to make interacting with a computer “as intuitive as playing with a ball,” but she soon realized the VR-based technology wasn’t close to being ready for a mass audience.

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