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OpenAI
Builds the GPT models and the ChatGPT assistant, and sells model access to businesses.
Company profile
OpenAI is a public benefit corporation that develops generative AI models, including the GPT series, and the ChatGPT chatbot. Wikipediacnbc.com
Its offerings serve ChatGPT subscribers and businesses using its models, including AI coding platforms. cnbc.comInternational Business Times, Singapore EditionTechCrunch
- Founded
- 2015
- Founders
- Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, John Schulman
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Chief executive
- Sam Altman
- Employees
- 4,500
- Ownership
- Not publicly reported
- Total funding
- Not publicly reported
- Latest funding round
- Not publicly reported
- Valuation
- $852 billion post-money
- Revenue
- US$25 billion
Drawn from Wikidata, Wikipedia, the company's own site and news and web sources; each figure links to its source. Researched Oct 19, 2026.
Latest news
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Replit Dumps Anthropic for OpenAI, Citing Cost Pressures
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