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Monday, September 14, 2026
AI Lately

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Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Fidji SimoNscaleas Independent Director· Sep 11Josh EngelsMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Joe BentonMETRas Researcher· Sep 10Alan DuongCrux AIas Chief Development Officer· Sep 10Paul ChristianoOpenAI Foundationas Board Member, Safety and Security Committee· Sep 9Jacob CoxonIndependentas Independent AI Safety Advocate· Sep 8Geoffrey IrvingMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8Paul ChristianoMathematical AI Safety Instituteas Scientific Advisory Panel Member· Sep 8

Person

Mira Murati

Lately: Thinking Machines Lab as Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from OpenAI.

Public record only: name, role, employer, source, and date.

Recorded moves

  1. Mira Murati → Thinking Machines Lab as Founder and Chief Executive Officer, from OpenAI (Chief Technology Officer)

    Created the founder-scientist lab that later drew John Schulman away from Anthropic and became a magnet for OpenAI alumni.

    foundingreportedFortune: OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup after brief stint at AnthropicFeb 6, 2025

In the archive

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Biggest AI Hires of 2025

    Meta's $14.3 billion Scale AI deal, OpenAI's C-suite rebuild, and Google's Windsurf license turned 2024 and 2025 into a two-year auction for AI's rarest asset: the researchers themselves.

  • Hiring & Talent

    The Founder-Scientist Labs

    Mira Murati's Thinking Machines, Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and a cluster of scientist-led startups command double-digit-billion valuations before shipping a product, yet the same compensation war rattling Big Tech now shakes their founding teams too.

  • Capital & Markets

    The 2026 Megaround League Table

    Nine confirmed 2026 financings past $500 million reveal a lopsided race, where Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and Ali Ghodsi command sums once reserved for national infrastructure while founder-scientist labs stall.