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Albanian AI genius' startup hits $10 billion valuation without a product or strategy
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| June 23, 2025
| Jai Hamid
Posted on 06/24/2025 6:56:44 PM PDT by nwrep
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Superheated AI space. Investors see no downside, if it fails, the employees are "acquihired".
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posted on
06/24/2025 6:56:44 PM PDT
by
nwrep
To: All
I just had an AI idea. It should be worth at least a billion dollars. No . . . wait . . nah, it’s just gas on my stomach. Darn! I was just this close to having a brainstorm of an idea.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:00:29 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
To: nwrep
She needs a black turtle neck, so she can emulate the Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes, Tech-Wiz guru look.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:03:33 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved)
To: nwrep
Damn, the startups I worked at had seed rounds of $100k to $250k.
She sure has a sterling resume.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:06:21 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: nwrep
Damn, she's done more than most people can do in several lives. She could be up there with Musk. And not yet 37 years old! I sure can relate to her with my BS in Mechanical Engineering. 😉
Ermira "Mira" Murati (born December 16, 1988, in Vlorë, Albania) is an Albanian-American engineer and technology executive renowned for her contributions to artificial intelligence (AI). She served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of OpenAI from May 2022 to September 2024, leading the development of groundbreaking AI technologies, including ChatGPT, DALL-E, and GPT-4. Murati earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Colby College (2011) and a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Dartmouth College (2012). Her career includes roles at Goldman Sachs, Zodiac Aerospace, Tesla (Senior Product Manager for Model X), and Leap Motion. In February 2025, she founded Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup focused on customizable and capable AI systems, raising significant funding and achieving a valuation of $10 billion.
Recognized by Time as one of the "100 Most Influential People in AI 2024," Murati is a vocal advocate for ethical AI development and regulation.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:12:45 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
To: nwrep
It’s her image that seduces and once she throws around inside/out and outside/in ideas people will catch on.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:13:45 PM PDT
by
BEJ
To: nwrep
FWIW, BBAI was up like 25% today. Watch the small cap space for AI. You can make some $$$ on the right picks that have room to run. THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE, just opinion about the sector.
To: nwrep
It’s like the dot com days of the 90s again.
Company name? Nope...
Elizabeth Holmes clone? Yep...
Any product at all? Nope....
Stock price....soaring.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:26:28 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….There’s really not much to)
To: nwrep
Not that it matters, but is she only wearing that open neck white blouse?
(sarc!!)
To: nwrep
Ask a native Greek about Albanian scammers. They’ll give you an earful... it’s in their blood!
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:35:07 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: nwrep
It’s the new, new economy!
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:36:28 PM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
(You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
To: El Cid
She needs a black turtle neck, so she can emulate the Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Holmes, Tech-Wiz guru look.Here you go. Not a turtleneck, but close enough...
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:37:42 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
To: nwrep
All these OpenAI people did was productize open research that Google data scientists created. They aren’t geniuses. Google is going to crush OpenAI and Murati in the end.
To: nwrep
Another female “genius” fraudster.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:42:47 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Nervous Tick
LOL!
I thought I was joking. You’re right, that’s the “look”. Good for soaking a bunch of investors. ‘She must be a genius, she looks a little like Steve Jobs’
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:42:56 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved)
To: nwrep
The Elizabeth Holmes business model?
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:50:22 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: El Cid
You beat me to it. Spot on.
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:50:55 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: nwrep
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posted on
06/24/2025 7:54:07 PM PDT
by
Frank Drebin
(And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
To: Secret Agent Man
SHE WAS AT TESLA——
SHE DIDN’T GO QUIETLY
MUSK DOESN’T FIRE PEOPLE WILLY NILLY
SURE WOULD LIKE BACKGROUND ON THIS
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posted on
06/24/2025 8:00:01 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: nwrep
She’s surely worth something; I just don’t know about ten billion.
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posted on
06/24/2025 8:03:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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