- Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab1
Mira Murati is the co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company that has released the Inkling open-weights models and Tinker, a training API for researchers. Before Thinking Machines, Murati worked at OpenAI: the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024) lists Murati under executive leadership, the GPT-4 Technical Report lists Murati among additional contributors, and Murati is a co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of the 2021 Codex paper that introduced the HumanEval benchmark.123456
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and CEO
- Company
- Thinking Machines Lab
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Language models, Multimodal models
- Work listed
- 2
- Sources cited
- 10
- Profile reviewed
Career at OpenAI
Mira Murati worked at OpenAI before co-founding Thinking Machines Lab. Murati is listed with an OpenAI affiliation as a co-author of the 2021 paper "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code," which introduced Codex and the HumanEval benchmark, and among the additional contributors to the 2023 GPT-4 Technical Report.675
The OpenAI o1 System Card, published in December 2024, lists Murati under executive leadership for the o1 models.4
Thinking Machines Lab
Murati is co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company whose stated mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment, with technical directions that include multimodal interaction and customizable models. In October 2025 the company announced Tinker, an API for training custom models, which reached general availability in December 2025.12893
In July 2026 Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weights mixture-of-experts transformer pretrained on text, images, audio and video and the first in a planned family of models. In March 2026 Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership.1091
Work and contributions
HumanEval Open data
Co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of "Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code" (2021), the Codex paper that introduced and released the HumanEval evaluation set.67
OpenAI o1 and GPT-4 Proprietary product
Listed under executive leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024) and among additional contributors in the GPT-4 Technical Report (2023).45
Timeline
- Co-authored the Codex paper that introduced the HumanEval benchmark.6
- Listed among additional contributors to the GPT-4 Technical Report.5
- Listed under executive leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card.4
- Thinking Machines Lab announced Tinker, an API for training custom models.9
- Thinking Machines Lab made Tinker generally available and added vision input.9
- Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership.19
- Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weights model and the first in a planned model family.109
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.
Where they work
- Thinking Machines Lab 13 people in the wiki
Related people
- John SchulmanAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
- Alexander KirillovAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
- Kenneth LiAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
- Myle OttAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
- Stephen RollerAlso at Thinking Machines Lab
- Nanyun (Violet) PengLanguage models · Multimodal models
- Shruthan RadhakrishnaLanguage models · Multimodal models
- Sathwik Tejaswi MadhusudhanLanguage models · Multimodal models
- Sergey BrinLanguage models · Multimodal models
- Hassan ShapourianMultimodal models · Language models
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References
10 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026
- Thinking Machines Lab and NVIDIA Announce Long-Term Gigawatt-Scale Strategic Partnership
- Thinking Machines Lab — homepage (Inkling, Tinker)
- Tinker — Thinking Machines Lab
- OpenAI o1 System Card (arXiv 2412.16720), authorship and credit attribution
- GPT-4 Technical Report (arXiv 2303.08774), authorship and credit attribution
- Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (arXiv 2107.03374)
- openai/human-eval repository (README citation; MIT License)
- The Future Worth Building Is Human
- Thinking Machines Lab — News
- Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model