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Mira Murati Age, Family, Biography

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Marital Status: Unmarried
Hometown: San Francisco Bay Area, California
Age: 35 Years

Mira Murati

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Full NameErmira Murati
ProfessionEngineer, Researcher, Technical Executive
Known forDevelopment of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4; Advocacy of Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)5' 6" (167 cm)
Eye ColourDark Brown
Hair ColourLight Brown
Career
Awards, Honours2023: WTF (What The Future) Innovators Award for her contribution in commercialising artificial intelligence models, aligning the tools with human intent, along with safety and policy initiatives
2024: Honourary Doctor of Science awarded by the Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Personal Life
Date of Birth16 December 1988 (Friday)
Age (as of 2024)35 Years
BirthplaceVlorë, Albania
Zodiac signSagittarius
NationalityAlbanian
HometownSan Francisco Bay Area, California
SchoolPearson College UWC (Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific), Victoria, Cananda
College/University• Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Educational Qualification• Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Mathematics
• Bachelor of Engineering (B. E) (Mechanical Engineering)
Social Media• Twitter
• LinkedIn
Relationships & More
Marital StatusUnmarried
Family
ParentsFather- (literature teacher)
Mother- (literature teacher)
SiblingsSister- 1 (elder)
Favourites
Film2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick
SongMusic Band Radiohead's 'Paranoid Android'
BookThe Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
Money Factor
Salary (approx.)$1-2 million per year
Net Worth (approx.)$5 million [1]Indiatimes

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Some Lesser Known Facts About Mira Murati

  • Mira Murati was interested in mathematics and physics from a very young age. According to her, she liked appearing in Olympiad tests and was always looking for problem sets to work on.
  • She received the UWC Davis scholarship and graduated from the Pearson College UWC, Vancouver in 2007.
  • In 2011, she worked as a summer analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, Japan for less than a year.
  • After completing engineering in 2012, she worked as an Advanced Concepts Engineer at Zodiac Aerospace (now part of Safran) in Huntington Beach, California for over a year.
  • From 2013 to 2016, she worked at Tesla, Inc. as a Senior Product Manager for Model X.
  • She worked at Leap Motion Inc. (now Ultraleap) as Vice-President of the Product and Engineering division from 2016 to 2018.
  • In 2018, she joined OpenAI as Vice-President of Applied AI and Partnerships. She has played a vital role in developing and commercialising AI systems and models, like ChatGPT, Dall-E, and GPT4.
  • She was eventually promoted to the Chief Technical Officer of OpenAI in May 2022.
  • In March 2024, in an interview, she explained about Sora, the company’s new AI model, that can generate video from text. When asked about the data they worked on for the research, she gave a vague reply that they worked on publicly available data.
  • At the end of May 2023, when the CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman stepped down briefly, Mira Murati acted as the interim CEO.
  • In May 2024, the Metropolitan Museum of Art collaborated with OpenAI to incorporate artificial intelligence in its annual Spring Costume Institute exhibition. Mira Murati attended the inauguration Met Gala in a 1951 Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/ Winter collection.

    Mira Murati in a Christian Dior gown at the Met Gala

    Mira Murati in a Christian Dior gown at the Met Gala

  • On 25 September 2024, she announced her resignation from the position of Chief Technical Officer at OpenAI citing her need to create time and space for her exploration.

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