OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday she is leaving the company.

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati is leaving OpenAI, among the companies at the vanguard of the AI boom, after a more than six-year tenure.  Under Murati’s technical leadership, OpenAI sparked the generative AI era with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022.

Mira Murati, the chief technology officer at OpenAI, the influential artificial intelligence start-up, said on Wednesday that she would leave the company after working there for more than six years. In a memo she sent to employees and later shared on X,