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Mira Murati

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Thinking Machines Lab

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.

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“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 order to build the infrastructure, the foundations of science and all that's required to actually h”

“There is certainly a risk that AI systems able to set their own goals might decide their goals are not aligned with ours and could lead to human extinction. That risk has not gone up or down recently but has been hyped and causes anxiety.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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