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OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco. It develops generative AI models, particularly the generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models (LLMs). Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom; as of 2026 ChatGPT is the…

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Founded
December 8, 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-12-08)
Founders
Elon Musk · Sam Altman · Ilya Sutskever · Greg Brockman · Trevor Blackwell (et al.)[a]
Industry
Artificial intelligence
Headquarters
1455 and 1515 Third Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people
Bret Taylor (chairman) · Sam Altman (CEO) · Greg Brockman (president and CEO of Applications) · Sarah Friar (CFO)
Net income
US$−9 billion (2025 est.)

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related to Key employees · 36
OpenAI → Aaron Chatterji, AirbnbChief Economist, Applications, Block, Brad Lightcap, BusinessCEO, CEO, CFO, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Product Officer, Chris Lehane, Combinator, CombinatorPresident, CTO, Director, Duke University's Fuqua School, Fidji Simo, Greg Brockman, Inc, Instacart
related to Copyright · 27
OpenAI → Authors Guild, Books1, Books2, December, Despite, George, GPT-3, GPT-4, Greg Brockman, In, In May, In September, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, July, Martin, Matthew Butterick, Mona Awad, OpenAI's
related to Founding · 27
OpenAI → According, AI, AI's, Altman, Amazon Web Services, Andrej Karpathy, AWS, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, However, Ilya Sutskever, In December, Inc, Infosys, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Musk, Pamela Vagata, Peter Thiel
related to Government contracting · 26
OpenAI → Advanced Research Projects Agency, AFRICOM's, Anduril, Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge, Defense, DoD, Exception, Fair Opportunity, GPT, Health, In December, In January, In October, LLMs, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Metropolis Center, Microsoft, Modeling, Nicholas, OpenAI's
related to Firing of Altman · 25
OpenAI → Adam D'Angelo, AI, Aleksander Mądry, Although Altman, Altman, Altman's, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, CEO, Chief Technology Officer Mira, Emmett Shear, GPT-4, Greg Brockman, Helen Toner, Ilya Sutskever, Jakub Pachocki, Microsoft, Murati, On November, OpenAI's, Sam Altman
related to Personnel changes · 21
OpenAI → AI, Anthropic, Aravind Srinivasan, Board, CEO, Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Directors, Former OpenAI, Ilya Sutskever, In, May, Mira Murati, Musk, Musk's, Perplexity AI, Safe Superintelligence Inc, September, Tesla, Tesla's AI
related to Wrongful-death lawsuits over ChatGPT safety (2025) · 19
OpenAI → Altman, Amaurie Lacey, Center, ChatGPT, Coverage, Florida, Georgia, In, In August, In November, Joe Ceccanti, Joshua Enneking, Oregon, Raine, Social Media Victims Law, Tech Justice Law Project, Texas, The, Zane Shamblin
related to Corporate partnerships · 17
OpenAI → AI, Broadcom, ChatGPT's, However, In, Kenya, November, Nvidia GPUs, OpenAI's, Sama, Sama's, San Francisco, The, These, This, Time, TSMC
related to Governance and legal issues · 17
OpenAI → AI, Azure, ChatGPT, Federal Trade Commission Act, FTC, FTC's, Greg Brockman, IAEA, Ilya Sutskever, In July, In May, Microsoft, Sam Altman, Section, The, These, They
related to Partnership with Microsoft · 16
OpenAI → AGI, As, Azure, Copilot, Following, Following OpenAI's, In, Later, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, On January, OpenAI Group PBC, OpenAI's, The, These, Windows

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OpenAIFoundedDecember 8, 2015 (10 years ago) (2015-12-08)1.00infobox
OpenAIFoundersElon Musk1.00infobox
OpenAIFoundersSam Altman1.00infobox
OpenAIFoundersIlya Sutskever1.00infobox
OpenAIFoundersGreg Brockman1.00infobox
OpenAIFoundersTrevor Blackwell (et al.)[a]1.00infobox
OpenAIHeadquarters1455 and 1515 Third Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.1.00infobox
OpenAIIndustryArtificial intelligence1.00infobox
OpenAIKey peopleBret Taylor (chairman)1.00infobox
OpenAIKey peopleSam Altman (CEO)1.00infobox
OpenAIKey peopleGreg Brockman (president and CEO of Applications)1.00infobox
OpenAIKey peopleSarah Friar (CFO)1.00infobox
OpenAINet incomeUS$−9 billion (2025 est.)1.00infobox
OpenAINumber of employees4,500 (2026)1.00infobox
OpenAIOwnersEmployees and investors (47%)1.00infobox
OpenAIOwnersMicrosoft (27%)1.00infobox
OpenAIOwnersOpenAI Foundation (26%)1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsChatGPT1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsGPT-5.61.00infobox
OpenAIProductsOpenAI Codex1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsGPT Image1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsDeep Research1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsChatGPT agent1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsChatGPT Atlas1.00infobox
OpenAIProductsChatGPT Health1.00infobox
OpenAIRevenueUS$13.1 billion (2025)1.00infobox
OpenAISubsidiariesOpenAI Deployment Company1.00infobox
OpenAITypePrivate1.00infobox
OpenAIWebsiteopenai.com1.00infobox
OpenAIis aAmerican artificial intelligence0.90text

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