{"id":3771,"date":"2025-02-07T00:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/john-schulman-joins-openai-after-mira-muratis-departure\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T00:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:31:35","slug":"john-schulman-joins-openai-after-mira-muratis-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/john-schulman-joins-openai-after-mira-muratis-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"John Schulman joins OpenAI after Mira Murati&#8217;s departure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI, who departed from AI company Anthropic earlier this week after a brief tenure of just <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-leaves-anthropic-after-just-five-months\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five months<\/a>, is reportedly joining <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/openai-co-founder-john-schulman-leaves-anthropic-after-just-five-months\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s secretive new startup<\/a>, according to Fortune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear what Schulman&#8217;s role will be at the new venture. Fortune was unable to obtain this information, and Murati has been tight-lipped about the venture since she left OpenAI in September. However, one source revealed to Fortune that Murati has recruited additional ex-OpenAI staff, including Christian Gibson, who had been serving on OpenAI\u2019s supercomputing team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murati was reportedly in talks to raise over $100 million for her company in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murati is credited as one of the leading architects of ChatGPT. Schulman left OpenAI last August for Anthropic. He <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/08\/05\/openai-co-founder-leaves-for-anthropic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted<\/a> about the decision on X, stating that it stemmed from a desire to deepen his focus on AI alignment \u2014 the science of ensuring AI behaves as intended \u2014 and engage in more hands-on technical work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/report-openais-ex-cto-mira-murati-has-recruited-openai-co-founder-john-schulman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Schulman, co-founder of OpenAI, who departed from AI company Anthropic earlier this week after a brief tenure of just five months, is reportedly joining former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[65,460,270,989,990,164,330],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ai","tag-anthropic","tag-in-brief","tag-john-schulman","tag-mira-murati","tag-openai","tag-startup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/mira-gpt4o.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}