OpenAI

Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 2015, OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company behind breakthroughs like ChatGPT, GPT-4, and DALL-E, dedicated to ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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Quick Facts

Founded: 2015
Founders: Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman & others
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Industry: Artificial Intelligence

About OpenAI

OpenAI was founded in December 2015 as a non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory. In 2019, the organization transitioned to a 'capped-profit' structure to attract the massive capital and compute power required to train foundational AI models while retaining its core safety mission.

The release of ChatGPT in late 2022 became a global watershed moment for generative AI, making OpenAI one of the most consequential technology companies of the decade. The company maintains a close strategic partnership with Microsoft, which provides cloud infrastructure for its models.

What OpenAI Does

Foundation Models

Development of frontier AI models including the GPT (text), DALL-E (image), and Sora (video) families.

ChatGPT

Consumer and enterprise conversational AI interfaces.

API Services

Developer platform enabling businesses to integrate OpenAI's models into their own applications.

Safety & Alignment

Dedicated research teams focused on ensuring AI systems act safely and according to human intent.

Career Areas

Types of professional roles found inside OpenAI.

Research Engineering
Applied AI & Engineering
Safety & Alignment
Product Management
Go-to-Market & Sales
Policy & Legal

OpenAI's History

2015
Founded as non-profit
OpenAI is established as a non-profit AI research lab with $1 billion in initial pledges.
2019
Capped-profit transition
OpenAI LP is formed to raise capital; Microsoft invests $1 billion to become the exclusive cloud provider.
2020
GPT-3 released
Release of GPT-3, demonstrating unprecedented capabilities in few-shot learning and natural language generation.
2022
ChatGPT launched
ChatGPT is released to the public, becoming the fastest-growing consumer application in history.
2024
Sora introduced
OpenAI previews Sora, a highly capable text-to-video generative model.

Purpose & Values

“To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”

OpenAI's charter mandates that any AGI developed must be highly autonomous and economically valuable, while fundamentally prioritizing global safety and human flourishing.

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