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OpenAI

Not to be confused with OpenAL, OpenAPI, or Open-source artificial intelligence.

OpenAI, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryArtificial intelligence
FoundedDecember 11, 2015 (2015-12-11)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, U.S.[1]
Key people
ProductsOpenAI Five
RevenueIncrease US$28 million[3] (2022)
Decrease US$−540 million[3] (2022)
Number of employees
c. 1,700 (2024)[2][4]
Websiteopenai.com
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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its mission is to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".[5] As a leading organization in the ongoing AI boom,[6] OpenAI is known for the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and a text-to-video model named Sora.[7][8] Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.

The organization consists of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc.,[9] registered in Delaware, and its for-profit subsidiary introduced in 2019, OpenAI Global, LLC.[10] Microsoft owns roughly 49% of OpenAI's equity, having invested US$13 billion.[11] It also provides computing resources to OpenAI through its cloud platform, Microsoft Azure.[12]

In 2023 and 2024, OpenAI faced multiple lawsuits for alleged copyright infringement against authors and media companies whose work was used to train some of OpenAI's products. In November 2023, OpenAI's board removed Sam Altman as CEO, citing a lack of confidence in him, but reinstated him five days later after negotiations resulting in a reconstructed board. Many AI safety researchers left OpenAI in 2024.[13][14]

  1. ^ "I Tried To Visit OpenAI's Office. Hilarity Ensued". The San Francisco Standard. December 20, 2022. Archived from the original on June 3, 2023. Retrieved June 3, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Metz, Cade; Isaak, Mike (September 3, 2024). "OpenAI, Still Haunted by Its Chaotic Past, Is Trying to Grow Up". New York Times. Archived from the original on September 7, 2024. Retrieved September 3, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Woo, Erin; Efrati, Amir (May 4, 2023). "OpenAI's Losses Doubled to $540 Million as It Developed ChatGPT". The Information. Archived from the original on June 19, 2023. Retrieved June 19, 2023. In 2022, by comparison, revenue was just $28 million, mainly from selling access to its AI software... OpenAI's losses roughly doubled to around $540 million last year as it developed ChatGPT...
  4. ^ Efrati, Amir; Holmes, Aaron (July 24, 2024). "Why OpenAI Could Lose $5 Billion This Year". The Information. Archived from the original on August 1, 2024.
  5. ^ "OpenAI Charter". openai.com. April 9, 2018. Archived from the original on July 14, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  6. ^ "Artificial: The OpenAI Story". WSJ. December 10, 2023. Archived from the original on December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  7. ^ "Models - OpenAI API". OpenAI. Archived from the original on November 19, 2023. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
  8. ^ Jindal, Siddharth (February 16, 2024). "OpenAI Steals the Spotlight with Sora". Analytics India Magazine. Archived from the original on April 20, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
  9. ^ "OPENAI, INC". OpenCorporates. December 8, 2015. Archived from the original on August 28, 2023. Retrieved August 2, 2023.
  10. ^ "Our structure". OpenAI. June 28, 2023. Archived from the original on July 29, 2023.
  11. ^ "Sam Altman Joins Microsoft After OpenAI Ousting". Time. November 20, 2023. Archived from the original on June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  12. ^ Roth, Emma (March 13, 2023). "Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer". The Verge. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  13. ^ Goldman, Sharon (August 26, 2024). "Exodus at OpenAI: Nearly half of AGI safety staffers have left, says former researcher". Fortune. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  14. ^ Meyer, David (October 24, 2024). "OpenAI's reputational double whammy". Fortune. Retrieved October 29, 2024.

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