Mira Murati is the latest OpenAI exec to leave. Read the memo she sent to staff.

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Mira Murati is the latest executive to depart OpenAI.”I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration,” she wrote in a staff memo.Murati’s attorney previously pushed back against reports she raised concerns about Sam Altman.

OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving the company — the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the leading AI company.

After six-and-a-half years at the company, including temporarily serving as its CEO after Sam Altman was briefly ousted, Murati told employees in a message Wednesday she had “made the difficult decision to leave.”

Read her full memo to staff that she shared online below:

Murati hails from Albania and joined OpenAI in 2018 following a previous stint at Tesla. At the AI giant, she oversaw the teams that developed two of its most important products: ChatGPT and image generator Dall-E.

In addition to heading up those major teams, Murati also served as a major public face for OpenAI, appearing in the company’s videos and sitting down for interviews with journalists.

When Altman was abruptly ousted by the company’s board in 2023, The New York Times reported that Murati played a key role, having raised concerns about his leadership style to the board and to Altman directly.

At the time, a lawyer for Murati pushed back, saying she had not approached the board to get Altman fired and was surprised by its decision.

The Times also reported that OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, who left the company in May, had similarly raised concerns.