OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems... Wikipedia

• Type:  Private
• Industry:  Artificial intelligence
• Founded:  December 08, 2015
• Founders:  Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata
• Key people:  Bret Taylor (chairman), Sam Altman (CEO), Greg Brockman (president), Sarah Friar (CFO)
• Products:  OpenAI Five, GPT-1, 2, 3, 3.5, 4, 4o, 4.5, 4.1, OSS, 5, DALL-E, GPT Image 1 OpenAI Codex, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Search, o1, o3, o4-mini, Sora, Sora 2, Operator, Deep Research, ChatGPT Atlas
• Revenue:  US$3.7 billion (2024 est.)
• Owner:  Employees and investors (47%), Microsoft (27%), OpenAI Foundation (26%)
• Number of employees:  3,000 (2025)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo