Apple looked at Mira Murati’s AI startup, and won’t stop there

Following a report last week about Apple holding internal talks over a potential Perplexity acquisition, Mark Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter revealed that Apple also explored a possible deal with another notable name in the AI space: Mira Murati. Here’s what went down.

Murati, best known as OpenAI’s former Chief Technology Officer, left the company last year following the boardroom chaos that briefly saw CEO Sam Altman ousted.

In fact, as detailed in the book “The…