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Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?

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By Kyle Wiggers

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Who is Mira Murati, OpenAI’s new interim CEO?

In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati? Murati, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College, previously worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then […]

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