Who Is Mira Murati? Amazing Facts About Young CTO!

WRITTEN BY Abirath EV

Mira Murati is the Chief Technology Officer at OpenAI, a San Francisco, California-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and implementation company.

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Mira Murati was born in 1988 in San Francisco, United States. Her parents are of Albanian descent, hence she has an Albanian connection.

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Mira is a mechanical engineering graduate of Dartmouth College in the US. Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university, is among the world's most prestigious academic institutions.

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An alumni of Dartmouth College leads the teams behind ChatGPT and DALL-E, an artificial intelligence system that can generate digital images from natural language descriptions.

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Mira also liked mathematics as a child. Playing simple video games drew Mira to AI. She wondered if video game agents were reasonable.

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In 2011, Mira joined the global investment banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs as a Summer Analyst. Her summer internship was in their Tokyo, Japan office.

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The turning point in Mira's professional career occurred in June 2018 when she joined OpenAI as Vice President of Applied AI and partnerships.

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She became Senior Vice President of Research, Products, and Partnerships in December 2020 and Chief Technology Officer in May 2022.

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Mira's net worth approaches one million dollars. Her primary source of income is her position as CTO at OpenAI.

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