India, Feb. 19 -- Mira Murati, the former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Artificial Intelligence (AI) giant OpenAI is launching her own startup called Thinking Machines Lab to rival the ChatGPT-maker.

Murati had left OpenAI abruptly in September last year. Her statement read, "I'm stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration."

Thinking Machines Lab then announced on its official X handle on Wednesday, February 19, 2025, that it was hiring candidates to join its team.

It stated that its team so far consisted of "scientists, engineers, and builders behind some of the most widely used AI products and libraries, including ChatGPT, Character.ai, PyTorch, and Mistral" and that it is "committed to open...