OpenAI Foundation — Founded Date: Dec 2015
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Our claim
entire record- Subject
- OpenAI Foundation
- Property
- Founded Date
- Value
- Dec 2015
- Notes
- Originally founded as OpenAI, Inc. in December 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and others. Renamed to OpenAI Foundation in October 2025 as part of corporate restructuring.
Source evidence
1 src · 1 checkNoteThe claim states 'OpenAI Foundation's Founded Date = 2015-12' (December 2015). The source confirms that OpenAI was founded in 2015, but the source does NOT state it was founded in December 2015 specifically. More critically, the source explicitly states that the entity was 'founded in 2015 as a nonprofit' and only 'renamed to the OpenAI Foundation in October 2025.' The founding date of 2015 applies to the original nonprofit organization, not to the 'OpenAI Foundation' entity per se. The OpenAI Foundation as a named entity was created in October 2025, not December 2015. The claim conflates the founding date of the original organization with the founding date of the renamed entity. While the underlying organization dates to 2015, the specific entity called 'OpenAI Foundation' was established in October 2025.