OpenAI’s former chief technology officer starts her own company

Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI who unexpectedly left the company in September, has helped found a new artificial intelligence startup called Thinking Machines Lab, adding to the wave of young companies that have been formed in the race to lead AI. Thinking Machines Lab aims to “make AI systems more widely understood, customizable and generally capable,” according to a blog post from the new company. It said it would freely share its technologies with outside researchers and companies, a practice known as “open source.”