Mira Murati, born in 1988 in Vlorë, Albania, studied mechanical engineering, worked at Tesla, and helped build ChatGPT, according to the article. Growing up obsessed with math and science, she moved to Canada at sixteen to attend Pearson College in British Columbia, then earned a mathematics degree at Colby College in Maine in 2011 and a master’s in mechanical engineering at Dartmouth, where she built a hybrid race car for an undergraduate project. Her professional life began at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo, then moved to Zodiac Aerospace in France. She joined Tesla in 2013, managing the Model X project from first design sketches through to production, and witnessed the birth of Autopilot. The article describes her path as zigzagging across continents and disciplines—from a college scholarship student in Canada, to a car designer at Tesla, to the heart of cutting-edge AI, and now founder of her own AI startup—and notes she trained as a mechanical engineer rather than starting out as a coder or machine learning whiz.