OpenAI

OpenAI, Inc.
	Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco
Company type	Private
Industry	Artificial intelligence
Founded	December 11, 2015
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people	Bret Taylor (chairman); Sam Altman (CEO); Greg Brockman (president); Mira Murati (CTO);
Products	OpenAI Five GPT-1; 2; 3; 4; 4o; DALL·E; OpenAI Codex; ChatGPT; Sora;
Revenue	US$28 million (2022)
Net income	US$−540 million (2022)
Number of employees	c. 1,200 (2024)
Website	openai.com

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015 and based in California. Its mission is to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".^[4] As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom,^[5] OpenAI has developed several large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, released open-source models.^[6]^[7] Its release of ChatGPT has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in AI.

The organization consists of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc.^[8] registered in Delaware and its for-profit subsidiary OpenAI Global, LLC.^[9] Microsoft provided OpenAI Global, LLC with a US$1 billion investment in 2019 and a $10 billion investment in 2023,^[10]^[11] with a significant portion of the investment in the form of computational resources on Microsoft's Azure cloud service.^[12]

In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement against authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO citing a lack of confidence in him, and then reinstated him five days later after negotiations resulting in a reconstructed board. OpenAI's board has since added former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, former National Security Agency head Paul Nakasone, and a non-voting seat for Microsoft.

^ "I Tried To Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued". The San Francisco Standard. December 20, 2022. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Woo, Erin; Efrati, Amir (May 4, 2023). "OpenAI's Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT". The Information. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023. In 2022, by comparison, revenue was just $28 million, mainly from selling access to its AI software... OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT...
^ "OpenAI Sees 'Tremendous Growth' in Corporate Version of ChatGPT". Bloomberg. April 4, 2024. Archived from the original on April 4, 2024.
^ "OpenAI Charter". openai.com. April 9, 2018. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
^ Journal, The (December 10, 2023). "Artificial: The OpenAI Story". WSJ. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
^ gpt-2, OpenAI, November 19, 2023, archived from the original on March 11, 2023, retrieved November 19, 2023
^ "Models - OpenAI API". OpenAI. Archived from the original on November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ "OPENAI, INC". OpenCorporates. December 8, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2023. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
^ "Our structure". OpenAI. June 28, 2023. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023.
^ Browne, Ryan (January 10, 2023). "Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT". CNBC. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^ Lardinois, Frederic (March 14, 2023). "Microsoft's new Bing was using GPT-4 all along". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
^ "OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft's $10 billion investment". Semafor. November 18, 2023. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

[1] "I Tried To Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued". The San Francisco Standard. December 20, 2022. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023.

[2022-fin-2] Woo, Erin; Efrati, Amir (May 4, 2023). "OpenAI's Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT". The Information. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023. In 2022, by comparison, revenue was just $28 million, mainly from selling access to its AI software... OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT...

[3] "OpenAI Sees 'Tremendous Growth' in Corporate Version of ChatGPT". Bloomberg. April 4, 2024. Archived from the original on April 4, 2024.

[4] "OpenAI Charter". openai.com. April 9, 2018. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.

[5] Journal, The (December 10, 2023). "Artificial: The OpenAI Story". WSJ. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.

[6] gpt-2, OpenAI, November 19, 2023, archived from the original on March 11, 2023, retrieved November 19, 2023

[7] "Models - OpenAI API". OpenAI. Archived from the original on November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 19, 2023.

[8] "OPENAI, INC". OpenCorporates. December 8, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2023. Retrieved August 2, 2023.

[St-9] "Our structure". OpenAI. June 28, 2023. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023.

[10] Browne, Ryan (January 10, 2023). "Microsoft reportedly plans to invest $10 billion in creator of buzzy A.I. tool ChatGPT". CNBC. Archived from the original on February 3, 2023. Retrieved January 27, 2023.

[11] Lardinois, Frederic (March 14, 2023). "Microsoft's new Bing was using GPT-4 all along". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on March 15, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2023.

[12] "OpenAI has received just a fraction of Microsoft's $10 billion investment". Semafor. November 18, 2023. Archived from the original on December 1, 2023. Retrieved November 27, 2023.

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