Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati’s AI startup taps top researchers from competitors

Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI, Meta and Mistral.The latest entrant into the crowded AI startup space wants to build artificial intelligence systems that encode human values and aim at a broader number of applications than rivals, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

It shows the ability of Murati, a longtime executive at OpenAI, to poach top researchers from her previous…