Mira Murati, who left OpenAI last year, has helped establish Thinking Machines Lab, a new artificial intelligence start-up.

Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati launched an AI startup called Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday, with a team of about 30 leading researchers and engineers from competitors including OpenAI,

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer, has launched a rival artificial intelligence start-up focused on making the technology widely accessible. Murati, 36, on Tuesday unveiled Thinking Machines Lab,

"Special voting rights could keep power in the hands of its nonprofit arm in future and so address the Tesla chief's criticisms that Altman and OpenAI have moved away from their original mission of creating powerful AI for the benefit of humanity," the FT wrote.

OpenAI on Friday rejected a $97.4 billion bid from a consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk for the ChatGPT maker, saying the startup is not for sale and that any future bid would be disingenuous.

The $97.4 billion bid muddles up Sam Altman’s quest to convert the ChatGPT-maker into a for-profit company.