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OpenAI - Overview and History
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Useful background reference for understanding OpenAI's organizational history, governance structure, and role in AI development; relevant context for discussions of AI lab accountability and safety practices.
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Wikipedia's reference article on OpenAI, covering its founding, mission, organizational structure, and key milestones. It provides background on OpenAI's transition from a nonprofit to a capped-profit model and its major research outputs including GPT series and ChatGPT. The article also touches on governance controversies and OpenAI's role in the broader AI landscape.
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- •Founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others with a stated mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
- •Transitioned from a nonprofit to a 'capped-profit' hybrid structure in 2019 to attract investment while maintaining mission alignment.
- •Developed influential AI systems including GPT-3, GPT-4, DALL-E, Codex, and ChatGPT, shaping modern AI capabilities.
- •Experienced significant governance crisis in November 2023 when the board briefly ousted CEO Sam Altman before reinstating him.
- •Operates as one of the most prominent AI labs globally, with major partnerships including a large investment and compute deal with Microsoft.
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American artificial intelligence company
Not to be confused with OpenAL , OpenAPI , or Open-source artificial intelligence .
OpenAI Company type Private Industry Artificial intelligence Founded December 8, 2015  (10 years ago)  ( 2015-12-08 ) [ 1 ] Founders Sam Altman
Elon Musk
Ilya Sutskever
Greg Brockman
Trevor Blackwell
Vicki Cheung
Andrej Karpathy
Durk Kingma
John Schulman
Pamela Vagata
Wojciech Zaremba
Headquarters 1455 3rd Street , San Francisco , California , U.S. [ 2 ] Key people Bret Taylor ( chairman )
Sam Altman ( CEO )
Greg Brockman ( president )
Sarah Friar ( CFO ) [ 3 ]
Fidji Simo (CEO of Applications)
Products
ChatGPT
GPT-5.4
OpenAI Codex
GPT Image
Deep Research
ChatGPT agent
ChatGPT Atlas
ChatGPT Health
Revenue US$ 13.1  billion [ 4 ]  (2025) Net income US$ −9  billion [ 5 ]  ( 2025 est. ) Owner Employees and investors (47%)
Microsoft (27%)
OpenAI Foundation (26%) [ 6 ]
Number of employees 4,500 (2026) [ 7 ] Website openai .com
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