Former Chief Technology Officer, Openai
Search every verified Mira Murati interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mira Murati, co-founder and CEO of Thinking Machines Lab, discussed the company's focus on human-AI collaboration during an appearance at Bloomberg Tech 2026 in San Francisco on June 3, 2026. Murati described the company's "interaction models," which she said are a new kind of model designed to keep humans in the loop, as opposed to the turn-based model in which an AI cannot perceive new information while thinking. She stated that the company has been working on the foundations of building a frontier AI model for the past year and a half and described the interaction models as a first look at a "concentrated bet towards human AI collaboration." Murati said she expects the company to show increased capabilities on the model side and more products in this direction in the coming months. Murati emphasized the importance of institutional design, decision-making, and transparency in AI governance, stating that the conversation too often gets wrapped up in the character of individual leaders. She said she has "very high conviction" that the way to continue building frontier AI systems is to keep humans in the loop, likening the process to a "tandem bike" rather than an autonomous system advancing without human involvement. Regarding competition and the company's funding, Murati said Thinking Machines raised significant capital but called the fundraising itself "not any big accomplishment" and said "it's really what you do with that" that matters, noting the company is "not a normal company" and requires substantial capital to build frontier AI systems.
“The interaction models are a new kind of model, if you consider the types of models that we work with today, they're very turn-based. And so, you talk, they talk, then they go off and think. Once you've given them sort of a prompt on what it is that you want to do. And while they're thinking, it's almost like they're d...”
“I think an area where there is very little work that's been done so far is bringing the machine intelligence closer to where the knowledge is. And so what I mean by that is there is one path of advancing frontier AI systems, which is very autonomous and it doesn't rely too much on the messiness of reality or the experi...”
“I think the most advanced AI systems are the most incredible tools for thought that humanity can ever have. And so how can this change the way that we think? And where we're still thinking. But it's changing the nature of thought, what we're thinking about.”
“I think the integrity character values of the people matter a lot because there are a lot of decisions, micro decisions you have to make every day, and you have to trust your team that they're making the right calls. Um, and I do think there's plenty of focus on that, and that's great. Um, where there is less focus is...”
“I have very high conviction that the way to continue building frontier AI systems is to bring people along and to have humans in the loop. Actually having humans in the loop doesn't quite describe it, because it sounds like a checkpoint where we're signing off something and then you're good to go. It's more like creati...”
“I think the more likely path and more durable path to, to advance AI in a way that, um, enables and advances civilization is by keeping humans in the loop, uh, for as long as we can and really making sure that this period is actually very meaningful.”
“It is extremely competitive. And, uh, yeah, we did raise a lot of money. We're proud of that. But that's that's not any big accomplishment. We didn't set out to break some sort of record. Um, it's really what you do with that. And, uh, and, and it's we're not a normal company. And so we do need a lot of capital, uh, in...”
“When you were making the decision about releasing ChatGPT into the wild, we had ChatGPT for a while and hit a point where we could really benefit from having more feedback from how people are using it, what are the risks, what are the limitations, and learn more about this technology that we have created and start brin...”
“The goal is not to predict the next word reliably or safely; when you have such general capabilities, it's very difficult to handle some of the limitations such as what is correct. Some of these texts and some of the data is biased, some of it may be incorrect.”
“One of the things that I'm most worried about is the ability of models like GPT-4 to make up things; we refer to this as hallucinations, so they will convincingly make up things and it requires being aware and really knowing that you cannot fully blindly rely on what the technology is providing as an output.”
“There are definitely going to be jobs that will be lost and jobs that will be changed as AI continues to advance and integrate in the workforce. Prompt engineering is a new job born from AI that's fetching hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.”
“We didn't set out to dominate search. What ChatGPT offers is a different way to understand information, searching in a much more intuitive way versus keyword-based. I think the whole world is moving in this direction.”
“Elon Musk left OpenAI years ago and pointed out that it's not as open as it used to be. He said he wanted it to be a nonprofit counterweight to Google; now it's a closed source maximum profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Does he have a point? Well, he's wrong on a number of levels.”
“The cleverness that Sam and everyone else figured out is they could say 'Look, we can do a market commercial deal where we give commercial licenses to parts of our technology and continue our mission of beneficial AI.'”
“We need to be more transparent but people say the AI should say this or shouldn't say that. We can't even agree on that ourselves. We want that to be a social decision, not litigated by other people.”
Thinking Machines CEO and Founder Mira Murati explains building interaction models for a new frontier model with humans in the loop. Mira is former CTO of OpenAI and previously worked at Tesla and Leap Motion. - - full video (June 2026): • Thinking Machines’ Murati on AI’s Next Cha...
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