OpenAI

OpenAI
Industry	Artificial intelligence
Founded	December 10, 2015; 10 years ago
Founders	Ilya Sutskever; Elon Musk; Greg Brockman;
Headquarters	1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Key people	Greg Brockman (chairman & president); Sam Altman (CEO); Ilya Sutskever (chief scientist); Mira Murati (CTO);
Products	GPT-4; DALL-E; OpenAI Five; ChatGPT; OpenAI Codex;
Number of employees	c. 375 (2023)
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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory. It is made up of many groups. These include the non-profit OpenAI Inc. and its for-profit subsidiary (company owned by another company) corporation OpenAI Global LLC.

Sam Altman has been chief executive officer of OpenAI since 2019 (even though he was kicked out for a little bit of time in 2023).

OpenAI Media

Former headquarters at the Pioneer Building in San Francisco
OpenAI's corporate structure
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 03: OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October 03, 2019 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
The release of ChatGPT was a major event in the AI boom. By January 2023, ChatGPT had become what was then the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in two months.
Altman and Sutskever at Tel Aviv University in 2023

References

↑ "Elon Musk creates AI company X, possible OpenAI rival". The Hindu. 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
↑ "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. December 12, 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
↑ Waxmann, Laura (October 27, 2023). OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters. https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/openai-s-f-uber-lease-18451102.php. Retrieved 2025-04-21.
↑ Roose, Kevin (February 3, 2023). How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.html.

[1] "Elon Musk creates AI company X, possible OpenAI rival". The Hindu. 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-05-16.

[auto2-2] "Introducing OpenAI". OpenAI. December 12, 2015. Archived from the original on August 8, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2023.

[3] Waxmann, Laura (October 27, 2023). OpenAI closes big lease deal at Uber's San Francisco headquarters. https://www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/article/openai-s-f-uber-lease-18451102.php. Retrieved 2025-04-21.

[4] Roose, Kevin (February 3, 2023). How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/technology/chatgpt-openai-artificial-intelligence.html.

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