openai

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research organization comprising both a non-profit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation, headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe... 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), Fidji Simo (CEO of Applications)
Products: ChatGPT, GPT-5.2 OpenAI Codex, GPT Image, Sora (video), Deep Research, ChatGPT agent, ChatGPT Atlas, ChatGPT Health
Revenue: US$3.7 billion (2024 est.)
Owner: Employees and investors (47%), Microsoft (27%), OpenAI Foundation (26%)
Number of employees: 4,000 (2025)
Data source: DuckDuckGo