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Scottish Sun
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Albanian Laura Woods goes braless in pink top as she bags new presenting role in completely different sport
The 29-year-old has built quite a following on social media 'STUPENDOUS' Albanian Laura Woods goes braless in pink top as she bags new presenting role in completely different sport EVA MURATI is no stranger to turning heads with bold outfits. And her latest get-up left little to the imagination. Advertisement 5 Eva Murati has been dubbed the 'Albanian Laura Woods' due to her Champions League coverage Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI 5 The 29-year-old has a massive following on social media Credit: Instagram / evamurati 5 Murati stunned during her live coverage of Stage One of the Giro d'Italia Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI 5 She proudly showed off her bold outfit on her Instagram Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI The Champions League presenter has been dubbed the "Albanian Laura Woods" by scores of footie fans. The Tring TV and Vizion Plus presenter has garnered quite the social media following thanks to her insight and bold outfits. Murati, 29, has garnered a whopping 1.1 million followers on Instagram alone. And she gave them a breathtaking display during her recent coverage of the Giro d'Italia, which kicked off in her homeland on Friday. Advertisement Murati went braless as she donned a tight pink strappy top and flowy white trousers. She proudly showed off her outfit, as well as some of her coverage of Stage One of the race, to her Instagram stories and main grid. Scores of her followers rushed to the comments section, with one saying: "Beautiful." Another said: "You are my love." Advertisement JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 5 Eva Murati is a versatile presenter Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI And another said: "It is impossible to stop gazing at your beautiful eyes." One remarked with love-heart emojis: "So beautiful, Eva." Advertisement Meet glam Champions League host Eva Murati Another chimed in with two fire emojis: "Stupendous." Stage One of the Giro d'Italia was won by Mads Pedersen, who wears the pink shirt going into Stage Two.
The Irish Sun
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Albanian Laura Woods goes braless in pink top as she bags new presenting role in completely different sport
EVA MURATI is no stranger to turning heads with bold outfits. And her latest get-up left little to the imagination. Advertisement 5 Eva Murati has been dubbed the 'Albanian Laura Woods' due to her Champions League coverage Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI 5 The 29-year-old has a massive following on social media Credit: Instagram / evamurati 5 Murati stunned during her live coverage of Stage One of the Giro d'Italia Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI 5 She proudly showed off her bold outfit on her Instagram Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI The Champions League presenter has been dubbed the "Albanian The Tring TV and Vizion Plus presenter has garnered quite the social media following thanks to her insight and bold outfits. And she gave them a breathtaking display during her recent coverage of the Giro d'Italia, which kicked off in her homeland on Friday. Advertisement READ MORE SPORTS NEWS Murati went braless as she donned a tight pink strappy top and flowy white trousers. She proudly showed off her outfit, as well as some of her coverage of Stage One of the race , to her Instagram stories and main grid. Scores of her followers rushed to the comments section, with one saying: "Beautiful." Another said: "You are my love." Advertisement Most read in Sport JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET £50 BONUS 5 Eva Murati is a versatile presenter Credit: INSTAGRAM@EVAMURATI And another said: "It is impossible to stop gazing at your beautiful eyes." One remarked with love-heart emojis: "So beautiful, Eva." Advertisement Meet glam Champions League host Eva Murati Another chimed in with two fire emojis: "Stupendous." Stage One of the Giro d'Italia was won by Mads Pedersen, who wears the pink shirt going into Stage Two.
Business Insider
05-05-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Want to invest in Mira Murati's new AI startup? You'll have to pony up at least $50 million.
Investors hoping to back former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati's buzzy new AI startup are being asked to commit a minimum of $50 million, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. Murati is raising around $2 billion of capital at a $10 billion valuation for Thinking Machines Lab, BI previously reported. Multiple sources say the megaround, led by Andreessen Horowitz, is nearing the final stages of fundraising. A spokesperson for Thinking Machines Lab declined to comment. A spokesperson for A16z did not respond to a request for comment. The round is not finalized, and the details could change. The financing would almost certainly rank as one of the largest seed rounds in history, which typically range in the low to mid-single digits. A $50 million check size is beyond the scope of most traditional seed investors because it would represent a substantial percentage, if not their entire fund. The minimum requirement and rich valuation reflect feverish investor enthusiasm for generative AI and the reality that there are a very limited number of technical founders with Murati's expertise and the team she has assembled. It's also enormously expensive to train AI models and recruit and retain top talent. Murati spent over six years at OpenAI, where she worked on the development of ChatGPT and other AI research initiatives. She was briefly appointed interim CEO in November 2023 after OpenAI's board abruptly fired Sam Altman, a move that sparked turmoil within the company. After Altman's reinstatement as CEO, Murati resumed her role as CTO. It has been a widely discussed mystery what exactly Thinking Machines will do to distinguish itself in a crowded and well-funded field that includes not only OpenAI but also Anthropic, Elon Musk's xAI, and Google's Gemini. In a blog post earlier this year, Murati positioned the startup as an artificial intelligence research and product lab focused on making AI more accessible. "To bridge the gaps, we're building Thinking Machines Lab to make AI systems more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable," the post said.
Business Insider
23-04-2025
- Business
- Business Insider
Meet Mira Murati, the former OpenAI CTO raising $2 billion for her secretive AI startup
Mira Murati is the talk of Silicon Valley. Murati made plenty of headlines in 2023 and 2024 amid the turmoil and brain drain at OpenAI. And in early 2025, she's already grabbing more attention for raising a massive new round of funding for her new AI startup. The 36-year-old is building Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup she launched in late 2024 after leaving OpenAI, where she served as chief technology officer. Murati hasn't revealed many details on what the startup is developing, but in a recent blog post, shared that the company is developing AI models focused on human and AI collaboration. Thinking Machines Lab is currently seeking $2 billion in seed funding, Business Insider first reported, which could be the largest seed round in history. The round could value the startup at more than $10 billion, two sources told BI. In January 2025, BI reported that Murati's startup was seeking $1 billion in seed funding at a $9 billion valuation. A representative for Murati declined to comment for this story. Murati was named to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in AI in September 2024. That same year, Dartmouth College, her alma mater, awarded her an honorary doctor of science for her work democratizing tech and making it safer for people to use. Prior to founding Thinking Machines Lab, Murati spent six and a half years at OpenAI and was its CTO from 2022 to 2024. When Sam Altman was briefly ousted as CEO of the AI startup in late 2023, Murati stepped in to lead the company on an interim basis. At OpenAI, Murati led the development of ChatGPT and the text-to-image model Dall-E. Earlier in her career, Murati worked at Tesla and at augmented reality startup, Ultraleap. Here's a look at Murati's life and career so far. Mira Murati's early life, education Ermira "Mira" Murati was born in Vlorë, a coastal city in Southwestern Albania. She lived there until she was 16, when she won an academic scholarship to study at Pearson College, a two-year pre-college program in Victoria, British Columbia. Murati participated in a dual-degree program that allows students to earn two degrees from two liberal arts schools in five years. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, in 2011 and a Bachelor of Engineering from Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2012. After graduating from college, Murati interned at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and French aerospace company Zodiac Aerospace. She then spent three years at Tesla, where she was a product manager helping develop the Tesla Model X car. From 2016-2018, Murati worked at augmented reality startup LeapMotion, where she worked on replacing computer keyboards with the tech. LeapMotion is now known as Ultraleap. Mira Murati's career at OpenAI Murati originally joined OpenAI in 2018 as the vice president of applied AI and partnerships. In December 2020, she became senior vice president of research, product and partnerships. She was promoted to be CTO of the startup in May 2022, leading the company's work to develop image generator DALL-E, video generator Sora, chatbot ChatGPT, and their underlying models. On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board shocked the tech world by announcing that Altman was stepping down as CEO and as a member of the board, effective immediately. The board in a blog post said that it "no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI," adding that Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications." Murati was named OpenAI's interim CEO in his place, but the position didn't last long: just one week after he was ousted, Altman was reinstated to OpenAI 's top spot with new board members, and Murati said she fully supported Altman's return. Murati has become known for her more cautious approach to AI and has said she believes it should be regulated. As far back as 2023, Murati acknowledged that there are dangers associated with AI, particularly when it comes to bad actors misusing the tech. In an interview, she told Time Magazine that it shouldn't be up to OpenAI and other AI companies to self-regulate and that regulators and governments should "definitely" be involved to ensure that AI use is aligned with human values. Following her brief time as interim CEO of OpenAI, Murati took on a more forward-facing role at the company. In May 2024, she helped to announce ChatGPT 4-o, the startup's new flagship model that is faster than its predecessor and can reason across text, voice, and vision. OpenAI also debuted a custom chatbot at the 2024 Met Gala, with Murati attending the exclusive event. While weighing in on AI-driven job loss, Murati said that some creative jobs might go away, "but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place." Her comments angered many, with one writer telling BI they represented "a declaration of war against creative labor." Mira Murati and Thinking Machines Lab Murati departed OpenAI in September 2024, a move that surprised many people in the tech world. Since departing, she's quietly been working on her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, which has captured the attention of many in Silicon Valley. While little is known so far about the startup, it is a research and product lab with the goal of making AI more accessible. The startup officially emerged from stealth in February 2025. She's recruited a long list of former OpenAI staffers to Thinking Machines Lab. Ex-Meta and Anthropic employees have joined, too. So far, Thinking Machines Lab employees from OpenAI include John Schulman, who co-led the creation of ChatGPT; Jonathan Lachman, formerly the head of special projects at OpenAI; Barret Zoph, a cocreator of ChatGPT; and Alexander Kirillov, who worked closely with Murati on ChatGPT's voice mode. In early 2025, BI reported that Thinking Machines Lab was raising a $1 billion round at a $9 billion valuation. In April 2025, BI reported that Murati doubled her target and was now seeking to raise a $2 billion round, which would be the biggest seed round in history. Two sources told BI that the round could value Thinking Machines Lab at more than $10 billion. Mira Murati's personal life Little is known about Murati's personal life, family, or relationships. At the Cannes Lions Film Festival in 2024, Murati shared a humorous anecdote about her mother's first interaction with ChatGPT was asking the chatbot when Murati would be getting married. Murati told Time Magazine that the 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey stirs her imagination, specifically, the movie's imagery and music in the scene where the space shuttle docks. The movie follows astronauts and an AI supercomputer as they journey to space to find the origin of a mysterious artifact. As the crew travels to the planet Jupiter, the computer tries to kill the astronauts. Murati also told the magazine she likes the song Paranoid Android by Radiohead, as well as the book Duino Elegies, which is a poem collection by Rainer Maria Rilke. A driving force for Murati's work is achieving AGI, or artificial general intelligence, which is AI that mimics human abilities. AGI would be able to adapt to a broad range of tasks, teach itself new skills, and apply that knowledge to new situations. The pursuit of this goal took Murati from Tesla, to Leapmotion, to OpenAI, she told WIRED in a 2023 interview. "I very quickly believed that AGI would be the last and most important major technology that we built, and I wanted to be at the heart of it," she said.
Reuters
11-04-2025
- Business
- Reuters
A16z eyes leading mega round in former OpenAI CTO's startup Thinking Machines, sources say
SAN FRANCISCO, April 11 (Reuters) - Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to lead an outsized early stage funding round of former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati's startup, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The startup, named Thinking Machines Lab, could be valued at $10 billion in the round, sources said, making it one of the most valuable AI startups in the world, despite only launching in February. The company, which has no revenue or products yet, is the latest entrant into the crowded space of companies building generative AI models. Thinking Machines has said it wants to build artificial intelligence systems that are safer, more reliable and aimed at a broader number of applications than rivals. Reuters couldn't learn how much Andreessen Horowitz is in talks to invest in this round. Business Insider reported earlier this week the final amount of the entire round could be close to $2 billion. Another VC heavyweight, Sequoia Capital, is also in talks to join the funding round, another source said. Thinking Machines Lab declined to comment. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The reception shows that investor enthusiasm toward new startups in AI remains extremely high, despite some questions about tech industry spending. An initial round of this size is not unprecedented: In September, former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever raised $1 billion, opens new tab based on his reputation in the field. Andreessen Horowitz, known as A16z, has made big bets in AI, backing competitors to AI heavyweight OpenAI. It has participated in large funding rounds for AI model startups including Elon Musk's xAI, Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence and France-based Mistral. It is currently raising a $20 billion megafund dedicated to later-stage investments in AI companies. If successfully raised, it would be the largest fund in the firm's history. Murati announced Thinking Machines Lab in February with a team of around 30 leading AI researchers and engineers, two-thirds of whom were former OpenAI employees, showing Murati's ability to poach her previous employer's top talent. Since then, other former prominent OpenAI employees have joined Thinking Machines as advisers, including OpenAI's former chief research officer, Bob McGrew, and the lead researcher for many of OpenAI's flagship AI models, Alec Radford. At OpenAI, Murati spent over six years spearheading transformative projects like ChatGPT and DALL-E, and was a key figure in OpenAI's multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, its largest financial backer. She frequently appeared alongside OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as the public face of the ChatGPT maker. Her abrupt resignation in September last year was part of a slew of high-profile exits from OpenAI, and she joined a growing list of former OpenAI executives launching rival startups, such as Dario Amodei's Anthropic and Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence.
