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Why in the world would he want Murati? She has absolutely no technical chops and was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.


> was not functionally CTO of OpenAI.

Why do you say that?


Her history was entirely non technical up until openAI.


I think that's total BS, based on this article about her, https://fortune.com/2025/10/03/mira-murati-career-ai-thinkin...

1. She has 2 BAs, one in math and one in mechanical engineering.

2. She was an "Advanced Concepts Engineer at Zodiac Aerospace from 2012 to 2013".

3. She was a product manager at Tesla on the Model X

4. She was VP of product and engineering at Leap Motion.

Going from that fact that she wasn't a deep learning researcher to "her history was entirely non technical up until Open AI" is plain false. And plus, the job of CTO is 90%+ people management, and she appears more than smart enough and experienced enough to evaluate technical decisions of her team.


I think you havent been in tech long enough to know what that resume is.


Because she was CTO of OpenAI.


Pretty ironic when access to trade secrets and people skills is seen as more important in a technical field than technical competence.


For the record, I doubt the CTO of OpenAI is the best person to fund if you're looking for trade secrets on training and deploying SOTA LLMs. They are two levels too far from reality to know anything useful.

What technical chops does Sam Altman have?


He started coding at age 8




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