OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization
Also known as openai.com
- Founded
- December 8, 2015
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Sources- 1.Stated in OpenCorporatesopencorporates.com/companies/us_de/5902936Retrieved 2023-01-08
- 2.crunchbase.com/organization/openai
- , December 11, 2015
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Sources- 1.bbc.com/news/technology-35082344Retrieved 2020-08-20
- 2.crunchbase.com/organization/openai
- December 8, 2015
- Founded by
- Sam Altman
- , Ilya Sutskever
- , Greg Brockman
- +8 more
- Headquarters
- Country
- Industry
- CEO
- Sam Altman(since 2023)
- , Sam Altman(2019–2023)
- , Mira Murati(2023–2023)
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Sources- 1.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23968848/openai-new-ceo-emmett-shear-twitch-co-founder-hiringRetrieved 2023-11-20
- +1 more
- Chair
- Bret Taylor(since 2023)
- Employees
- 4,500(March 21, 2026)
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Sources- 1.ft.com/content/7ffea5b4-e8bc-47cd-adb4-257f84c8028bRetrieved 2026-03-21
- 4,500(March 21, 2026)
Overview
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All data
224 statements · 35% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Social media followers
- 1,740,000(August 17, 2025) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 1,465,160(February 8, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 4398626122
- 1,560,000(June 14, 2025) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 1,410,000(January 26, 2025) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 1,230,000(July 20, 2024) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 1,110,000(May 18, 2024) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 854,000(March 16, 2024) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 776,000(January 14, 2024) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 594,000(May 31, 2023) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 526,000(March 22, 2023) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
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- 285,000(February 17, 2023) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- 743,963(May 23, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 4398626122
- 187,000(March 17, 2022) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- 637,237(January 7, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 4398626122
- 155,000(July 1, 2021) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- 498,004(January 6, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 4398626122
- 1,740,000(August 17, 2025) youtube channel id: UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- Official name
- OpenAI Foundation(since 2025)
- OpenAI Inc.(until 2025)
- Notable work
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- Owner of
- OpenAI Group PBC(since 2025) proportion: 26%
- OpenAI Holdings(until 2025) proportion: unknown
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Sources- 1.“Ownership at OpenAI: From the Perspective of Enterprise Foundation Governance”Retrieved 2025-11-06
- OpenAI GP(until 2025) proportion: 100%
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Sources- 1.“Ownership at OpenAI: From the Perspective of Enterprise Foundation Governance”Retrieved 2025-11-06
- ChatGPT
- The Deployment Company
- Total expenditure
- $8B(2025)
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Sources- 1.Stated in CNBCcnbc.com/2026/02/20/openai-resets-spend-expectations-targets-around-600-billion-by-2030.htmlRetrieved 2026-05-20
- $2.87M(2023)
- $1.29M(2022)
- $1.39M(2021)
- $8B(2025)
- Board member
- Sam Altman(since 2019)
- Bret Taylor(since 2023)
- Lawrence Summers(since 2023)
- Susan Desmond-Hellmann(2025)
- Zico Kolter(2025)
- Paul M. Nakasone(2025)
- Adebayo O. Ogunlesi(2025)
- Nicole Seligman(2025)
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- Adam D'Angelo(2021)
- Shivon Zilis(until 2023)
- Reid Hoffman(until 2023)
- Tasha McCauley(2021–2023)
- Helen Toner(2021–2023)
- Ilya Sutskever(until 2023)
- Greg Brockman(until 2023)
- Will Hurd(2021–2023)
- Significant event
- lawsuit(since 2026) title: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging artificial intelligence company stole trade secrets
- lawsuit(since 2026) title: Penguin to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT version of German children’s book
- lawsuit(since 2023)
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Sources- 1.Stated in Silverman v. OpenAI“Sarah Silverman Brings Copyright Suits Against OpenAI, Meta - Law360”law360.com/articles/1697482Retrieved 2024-10-08
- 2.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/arts/sarah-silverman-lawsuit-openai-meta.htmlRetrieved 2024-10-08
- lawsuit(since 2023) title: The New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI
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- Donations
- $5.02M(2023)
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- $1,611(2022)
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- $3,066(2021)
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- $2.66M(2020)
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- $33.6M(2019)
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- $49.9M(2018)
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- $33.2M(2017)
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- $13.8M(2016)
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- $5.02M(2023)
On other databases
65 identifiers linking OpenAI across the web's reference databases
- 15min.lt topic ID98424
- App Store developer ID1684349733
- BabelNet ID17636594n
- BBC Things ID915d994f-4406-4afb-b0de-eba43b8fa3d9
- Bing entity ID9b131545-38a3-0bb6-c48a-345435a9a0a6
- Bloomberg company ID1554630D:US
- CANTIC ID981061049264006706
- Comparably company IDopenai
- ComputerLanguage.com definitionOpenAI
- Consumer Rights Wiki article ID5234
- Discord invite IDopenai
- Discord server numeric ID974519864045756446
- ELMCIP ID16381
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDmoney/OpenAI
- Fandom article IDlogos:OpenAI
- France 24 topic ID (French)openai
- GitHub accountopenai
- GND ID1165529815
- Golden ID (archived)OpenAI
- Google Knowledge Graph ID/g/11bxc656v6
- Google News topics IDCAAqKAgKIiJDQkFTRXdvTkwyY3ZNVEZpZUdNMk5UWjJOaElDWlc0b0FBUAE
- Google Play developer slugOpenAI
- GRID IDgrid.511328.c
- HAL structure ID547066
- Hugging Face user or organization IDopenai
- IdRef ID224627856
- Indeed company IDOpenai
- Instagram usernameopenai
- IRS Employer Identification Number81-0861541
- J9U entity ID987013348316705171
- Lex IDOpenAI
- Library of Congress Authorities IDno2023052542
- LinkedIn company or organization IDopenai
- MusicBrainz artist IDbf47bbea-ad9c-49de-956b-8fd210d3cb75
- Namuwiki ID오픈AI
- National Library of Poland MMS ID9813168228105606
- NDL Authority ID033611207
- NE.se IDopenai
- NL CR AUT IDko20231201916
- Open Library subject IDopenai
- OpenAlex IDC4387192131
- OpenCorporates organization IDus_de/5902936
- OpenStreetMap node ID6907148618
- OSDN projectfreshmeat_openai
- PermID5066389867
- Quora topic IDOpenAI
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)openai
- ROR ID05wx9n238
- Scilit organization ID100897
- Shazoo tag ID9231
- SoundCloud IDopenai_audio
- SubredditOpenAI
- SVKKL authority ID0436186-OpenAI-organizace
- Tabakalera ID140836
- The Guardian topic IDtechnology/openai
- Threads usernameopenai
- TikTok usernameopenai
- Twitch usernameopenai
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID491987
- VIAF cluster ID279153596615351900003
- X (Twitter) usernameOpenAI
- Yale LUX IDgroup/ba6d1c05-c0da-4117-9209-710c8911574e
- YouTube channel IDUCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- YouTube handleOpenAI
- Zhihu topic ID20083046
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