OpenAI CEO Mira Murati
  • Mira Murati is the latest executive to depart OpenAI.
  • "I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration," she wrote in a staff memo.
  • Murati's attorney previously pushed back against reports she raised concerns about Sam Altman.

OpenAI's Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati is leaving the company.

And within hours, two more OpenAI execs joined the list of high-profile departures, marking another major shake-up for the leading AI company.

After six-and-a-half years at the company, including temporarily serving as its CEO after cofounder Sam Altman was briefly ousted, Murati told employees in a message Wednesday she had "made the difficult decision to leave."

Read her full memo to staff that she shared online below: