Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history.

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati speaking in December 2024 in San Francisco.

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• Mira Murati spent 6 ½ years at OpenAI, where she served as the CTO, working on ChatGPT.
• Her new company is in the process of raising upwards of $2 billion of venture funding, sources told BI.
• Even by the standards of today's frothy AI market, $2 billion for a startup less than a year old is a gargantuan sum.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former chief technology officer...