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OpenAI

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Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4o and the leading AI research lab.

Generative AI Public Foundation Model 🇺🇸 United States · San Francisco Est. 2015
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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company founded in 2015 in San Francisco. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI created ChatGPT, the world's most widely used AI assistant, as well as GPT-4o, DALL-E, Whisper and Sora. Originally a non-profit, the company transitioned to a capped-profit structure to attract the investment needed to pursue its research goals. With a valuation exceeding $150 billion, OpenAI is the most valuable AI company in the world.

Founders

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Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
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Greg Brockman
Co-Founder
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Ilya Sutskever
Co-Founder

Company info

AI Type
Foundation Model
Funding Stage
Public
Sector
Generative AI
Country
🇺🇸 United States
City
San Francisco
Founded
2015
Business model
B2B2C
Pricing
Freemium
Legal structure
PBC
API
Available
Open source
No

Financials

Valuation
$157B
Total raised
$17.9B

Notable clients

Microsoft Apple Shopify

Links

openai.com

Products & Tools

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ChatGPT ★
The world's most used AI assistant
Chatbot Freemium
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GPT-4o ★
OpenAI's most capable multimodal model
Model Paid
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DALL·E ★
AI image generation from text prompts
Tool Freemium
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Sora ★
AI video generation from text
Tool Paid
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OpenAI API ★
REST API access to all OpenAI models
API Paid
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Whisper
Open-source speech recognition model
Model Open Source

Funding Rounds

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Jan 2023
$10B Series B val. $29B
★ Microsoft
Jul 2019
$1B Series A
★ Microsoft
Dec 2015
$11M Seed
Sam Altman
Initial funding from Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and others.

Acquisitions 3 deals

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Multi Completed Jul 2024

Acqui-hired the team behind Multi, a collaborative screen-sharing tool, to bolster real-time collaboration features.

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Rockset Completed Jun 2024

Acquired Rockset, a real-time analytics database company, to power search and retrieval capabilities across OpenAI products.

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Global Illumination Completed Aug 2023

OpenAI's first known acquisition — a creative tools startup whose team joined to work on core products including ChatGPT.

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