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OpenAI

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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

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OpenAI is a United States-based enterprise headquartered in San Francisco, established in 2015. The organization operates as both a Delaware corporation and a 501(c)(3) organization. Its primary fields of work include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and search engines. OpenAI employs 4,500 people and maintains an active status as a company and funder.

The entity is named after the concepts of openness and artificial intelligence. Notable works produced by the organization include ChatGPT, OpenAI Five, Sora, and GPT-4. OpenAI maintains an official website and blog, along with a community forum and service status page. The organization has 1,740,000 social media followers.

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Company.name
OpenAI
Company.logo
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Company.type
Private
Company.industry
Artificial intelligence
Company.hq_location
1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Company.revenue
 billion
Company.revenue_year
2025
Company.net_income
US$ billion
Company.suppressfields
assets
Company.num_employees
4,500 (2026)

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Research organization · ROR

Type
Company, Funder
Founded
2015
Location
San Francisco, United States
Also known as
OpenAI
Status
Active
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Encyclopedic overview

34 sections
Contents
  • Founding
  • Corporate structure
  • Transition from non-profit
  • 2025 restructuring
  • Partnership with Microsoft
  • Finances
  • Business model
  • Acquisitions
  • Corporate partnerships
  • Government contracting
  • Services
  • Products
  • Development
  • Transparency
  • Alignment
  • Leaked conversations
  • Management
  • Key employees
  • Board of directors of the OpenAI nonprofit
  • Principal individual investors
  • Firing of Altman
  • Personnel changes
  • Governance and legal issues
  • Non-disparagement agreements
  • Copyright
  • GDPR compliance
  • Military and warfare
  • Wrongful-death lawsuits over ChatGPT safety (2025)
  • Murder of Suzanne Adams
  • 2026 Canadian mass shooting
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

OpenAI is widely recognized for its development of the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and the Sora series of text-to-video models, which have influenced industry research and commercial applications. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.

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