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OpenAI is a leading artificial intelligence research and product company building systems that can reason, create, and assist across a wide range of real-world tasks. Best known for ChatGPT and its frontier AI models, OpenAI develops general-purpose technologies that power applications in software development, knowledge work, creative tools, and enterprise automation. The company operates at the intersection of cutting-edge research and large-scale deployment, with a mission to ensure that advanced AI is developed safely and delivers broad economic and societal value.

Founder
Co-founders
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, George Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpath, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Wojciech Zaremba
Initial Investment
Current Investors
Leaders Fund, SoftBank Group, Dragoneer Investment Group, Microsoft, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Altimeter Capital, Blackstone, Andreesen Horowitz, Fidelity Investments, Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Nvidia, and others
Status
Active