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Mira Murati, a former executive at OpenAI, has established a new AI research lab and has made significant hires, including Jonathan Lachman, the previous head of special projects at OpenAI. This new venture, which aims to explore artificial general intelligence, has attracted around 10 researchers and engineers from competitors such as OpenAI, Character AI, and Google DeepMind. Murati left OpenAI shortly after the company’s leadership crisis in 2023, where she briefly served as interim CEO. Her departure was followed by other high-profile exits from OpenAI, including Barret Zoph, Bob McGrew, and Ilya Sutskever, who also founded new ventures in the AI space. Murati’s startup is still in its early stages, lacking a name or product direction, but she is reportedly seeking to raise over $100 million in funding.