OpenAI

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 Inc. and the OpenAI Foundation are United States enterprises established in December 2015. Headquartered in San Francisco, the organization operates as a Delaware corporation and a 501(c)(3) organization. It employs 4500 people and focuses on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and search engines. The company is named after openness and artificial intelligence.

Notable works include ChatGPT, OpenAI Five, Sora, and GPT-4. OpenAI owns ChatGPT. The board includes Shivon Zilis, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, and Helen Toner. Sam Altman, Mira Murati, and Emmett Shear have served as chief executive officers. The organization has been involved in a lawsuit. Its total assets are 31040138, with total revenue of 25000000000 and total expenditure of 8000000000. Donations amount to 49917797.

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Within Vinony's link graph, OpenAI is referenced by 963 other articles, and connects out to ChatGPT, The Wall Street Journal and Gemini.

It is catalogued under topics including 2015 establishments in California, 2015 in artificial intelligence and 2015 in San Francisco.

Its subject is documented across 94 Wikipedia language editions.

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Company.name: OpenAI
Company.logo: frameless|upright=1.1|class=skin-invert
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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Type: Company, Funder
Founded: 2015
Location: San Francisco, United States
Also known as: OpenAI
Status: Active

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: enterprise
Named after: openness
Official name: OpenAI Foundation
Field of work: machine learning
Country: United States
Founded by: Sam Altman
Headquarters: San Francisco
CEO: Sam Altman
Industry: Artificial intelligence
Employees: 375
Revenue: 3481784
Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization
Official website: openai.com
Image: Pioneer Building, San Francisco (2019) -1.jpg
Significant event: lawsuit

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inception: 2015-12-08
official blog URL: openai.com/blog
web feed URL: www.openai.com/feed.xml
Commons category: OpenAI
social media followers: 1740000
service status information URL: status.openai.com
official forum URL: community.openai.com
topic's main category: Category:OpenAI
on focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Artificial Intelligence
topic has template: Template:OpenAI
issue tracker URL: bugcrowd.com/openai
Similarweb ranking: 16
different from: open-source artificial intelligence
total assets: 21376567
total expenditure: 1294149
board member: Will Hurd
location of formation: San Francisco
donations: 5023159
privacy policy URL: openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
URL: discord.com/invite/openai
sitemap URL: openai.com/sitemap.xml
terms of service URL: openai.com/policies/service-terms
API endpoint URL: developers.openai.com/api/reference/overview
product or material produced: GPT-5
item operated: ChatGPT

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Encyclopedic overview

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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 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OpenAI” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.