OpenAI

Frontier AI Lab

Founded Dec 2015 (10 years old)HQ: San Franciscoopenai.com ↗

Also known as: OpenAI Inc, OpenAI LP, OpenAI Global LLC

Structured Facts

Database Records

Revenue

$25 billion

as of Feb 2026

Valuation

$500 billion

as of Oct 2025

Headcount

4,500

as of Mar 2026

Total Funding Raised

$59.9 billion

as of Mar 2025

Enterprise Market Share

27%

as of Dec 2025

Founded Date

Dec 2015

Funding History

Series (March 2025)equityMar 2025

$40Bat $300B valuationLed by SoftBank

$40B at $300B valuation. Largest private funding round on record at the time. SoftBank $30B. Per OpenAI blog.

openai.com

Series (October 2024)equityOct 2024

$6.6Bat $157B valuationLed by Thrive Capital

$6.6B round at $157B valuation. Investors: Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Thrive Capital. Per CNBC.

cnbc.com

Strategic Investment (Microsoft, 2023)strategicJan 2023

$10BLed by Microsoft

Multi-year investment from Microsoft (reported as ~$10B), extending the partnership announced in 2019.

blogs.microsoft.com

Series (2023)2023

$300Mat $29B valuation

2023 round at $29B valuation. Per multiple sources.

taptwicedigital.com

Series (2021)equityJan 2021

$1B

$1B raise from investors including Khosla Ventures and Reid Hoffman at approximately $30B valuation.

techcrunch.com

Strategic Investment (Microsoft)strategicJul 2019

$1BLed by Microsoft

$1B strategic investment from Microsoft in July 2019, establishing a long-term partnership.

openai.com

SeeddonationDec 2015

$1B

$1B pledged at founding by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research.

openai.com

All Facts

Financial16 Products & Usage7 Organization4 Safety & Research4 People2 Background1 General1 Other2

Financial

Annual Cash Burn$8.5 billionDec 20252 pts▶

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Dec 2024	$5 billion	view →

Annual Expenses$22.0 billionDec 20252 pts▶

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Dec 2025	$22.0 billion	view →
Dec 2024	$9.0 billion	view →

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Dec 2025	21%	view →
Jul 2025	21%	view →

Customer Concentration10%Dec 2025▶

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Jul 2025	25%	view →
Dec 2023	50%	view →

Equity Stake26%Oct 20252 pts▶

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Oct 2025	27%	view →

Equity Value$135 billionOct 2025▶

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Oct 2025	$135 billion	view →

Gross Margin33%Dec 2025▶

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Dec 2025	33%	view →

Headcount4,500Mar 20262 pts▶

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Mar 2026	4,500	view →
Jun 2025	3,500	view →

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Dec 2025	27%	view →
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Product Revenue$20 billionDec 2025▶

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Retention Rate71%Jun 2025▶

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Revenue$25 billionFeb 20263 pts▶

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Dec 2025	$13.1 billion	view →
Jun 2024	$3.4 billion	view →

Revenue Guidance$30.0 billionJan 2026▶

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Jan 2026	$30.0 billion	view →

Total Funding Raised$59.9 billionMar 20252 pts▶

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Oct 2024	$17.9 billion	view →

Valuation$500 billionOct 20253 pts▶

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Mar 2025	$300 billion	view →
Oct 2024	$157 billion	view →

Products & Usage

Benchmark Score71.7Sep 20242 pts▶

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Sep 2024	71.7	view →
Sep 2024	83	view →

Business Customers9 millionFeb 20262 pts▶

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Feb 2026	9 million	view →
Sep 2025	1 million	view →

GPU Count1 millionDec 2025▶

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Dec 2025	1 million	view →

Model Parameters175 billionJun 2020▶

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Monthly Active Users200 millionAug 20242 pts▶

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Feb 2023	100 million	view →

Monthly API Calls260 billionOct 2025▶

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Weekly Active Users900 millionFeb 20263 pts▶

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Oct 2025	800 million	view →
Feb 2025	400 million	view →

Organization

CountryUnited States—▶

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Founded DateDec 2015—▶

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HeadquartersSan Francisco—2 pts▶

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Legal StructurePublic Benefit CorporationOct 20254 pts▶

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Oct 2025	Public Benefit Corporation	view →
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Mar 2019	Capped-profit LLC	view →
Dec 2015	Nonprofit 501(c)(3)	view →

Safety & Research

AI Safety LevelHigh/Critical capability thresholds (Preparedness Framework v2)Apr 2025▶

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Interpretability Team Size40Dec 2025▶

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Safety Researchers650Dec 2025▶

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Dec 2025	650	view →

Safety Staffing Ratio19%Dec 2025▶

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People

Founded BySam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman—▶

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Founder (text)Elon Musk—▶

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Background

Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI—▶

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General

Websitehttps://openai.com/—▶

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Other

ceoSam Altman—▶

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infrastructure-investment-target600 billionFeb 2026▶

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Board Seats

Member	Role	Appointed	Departed	Source	Notes	Source check
Helen Toner	Board Member	2021	2023-11	wsj.com	OpenAI board member 2021-2023; voted to remove Sam Altman in November 2023 coup; resigned following Altman's reinstatement

Divisions

Name	DivisionType	Lead	Status	StartDate	EndDate	Source	Notes
Superalignment	team	Jan Leike	dissolved	2023-07	2024-05	openai.com	Co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. Aimed to solve alignment for superintelligent AI within 4 years using 20% of compute. Dissolved May 2024 after leadership departures. Jan Leike listed as lead.
Preparedness	team	LlmdDoyjoF	active	2023-10	—	openai.com	Tracks, evaluates, forecasts, and protects against catastrophic risks from frontier AI models. Led by Aleksander Madry.
Safety Systems	team	—	active	—	—	openai.com	Responsible for content policy, monitoring, and safety tooling for deployed models
Superalignment	team	—	dissolved	2023-07	2024-05	openai.com	Led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike. Aimed to solve alignment for superintelligent AI within 4 years using 20% of compute. Dissolved May 2024 after leadership departures.
Preparedness	team	—	active	2023-10	—	openai.com	Tracks, evaluates, forecasts, and protects against catastrophic risks from frontier AI models. Led by Aleksander Madry (after Leopoldas Aschenbrenner left).

Entity Events

Title	Date	EventType	Description	Significance
Converted to Public Benefit Corporation	2025	pivot	Converted from capped-profit LLC; cumulative funding reaches $59.9B (including $11B+ Microsoft and a $40B SoftBank round).	major
o3-mini released	2025	launch	Efficient reasoning model; broader reasoning availability.	moderate
o3 preview released	2024	launch	Next-generation reasoning model; near-frontier performance on some tasks.	moderate
o1 reasoning model released	2024	launch	Advanced chain-of-thought; mathematical/scientific reasoning advances; raised hidden reasoning and deception risks.	major
Board crisis and Sam Altman ouster/return	2023-11	leadership-change	Brief removal of Sam Altman by the non-profit board, followed by his return; restructured board with commercial representation.	major
GPT-4 released	2023-03	launch	Undisclosed multimodal model; human-level performance on many tasks; dangerous capabilities acknowledged.	major
ChatGPT launched	2022-11	launch	InstructGPT/ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 + RLHF) drove mainstream AI adoption; established RLHF as a standard alignment technique.	major
GPT-3 released (175B parameters)	2020	launch	Few-shot learning breakthrough that sparked the modern scaling race.	major
GPT-2 released (1.5B parameters)	2019	launch	Initially withheld due to misuse concerns; demonstrated growing capability of large language models.	major
Restructured to capped-profit LLC	2019	pivot	Created OpenAI LP capped-profit subsidiary to raise commercial capital while preserving the non-profit parent.	major
GPT-1 released (117M parameters)	2018	launch	First transformer language model from OpenAI; established the architecture.	moderate
Founded as non-profit with ~$1B founder commitment	2015	founding	Founding mission "AGI benefits all humanity"; "open by default" research publishing, "safety over competitive advantage."	major

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