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title: "OpenAI: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-openai
type: Organization
wikidata: Q21708200
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
website: https://openai.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# OpenAI

> OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops proprietary generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models.

Read on the web: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-openai

## Facts

- Category: Research lab
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2015-12-08
- Headquarters: San Francisco
- Status: private
- Website: https://openai.com/
- Employees: 4,500 (as of 2026-03-21)
- Also known as: openai.com
- Industries: artificial intelligence

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/OpenAI
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/openai
- github: https://github.com/openai
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZCJLdBC09xxGZ6gcdrc6A
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/openai

## Key people

- Pamela Vagata, founder (computer scientist and venture capitalist, co-founder of Pebblebed)
- Elon Musk, founder (American businessman (born 1971))
- Trevor Blackwell, founder (Canadian programmer)
- Sam Altman, founder (American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985))
- Ilya Sutskever, founder (Canadian-Israeli AI researcher)
- Wojciech Zaremba, founder (Polish mathematician and computer scientist)
- Diederik P. Kingma, founder (research scientist)
- Andrej Karpathy, founder (Slovakian-Canadian AI researcher (born 1986))
- Greg Brockman, founder (American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer)
- John Schulman, founder (American computer scientist)
- Vicki Cheung, founder
- Bret Taylor, chair (American businessman), since 2023-11-01
- Adam D'Angelo, board member (American businessman)
- Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, board member (Nigerian-born American investment banker)
- Bret Taylor, board member (American businessman), since 2023-11-22
- Lawrence Summers, board member (American economist and government official (born 1954)), since 2023-11-22
- Sam Altman, board member (American entrepreneur and investor (born 1985)), since 2019-01-01
- Susan Desmond-Hellmann, board member (American academic administrator)
- Nicole Seligman, board member (American attorney and business executive)
- Paul M. Nakasone, board member (United States Army general)
- Zico Kolter, board member (Academic and AI safety expert)
- Dario Amodei (CEO and co-founder of Anthropic)
- Fidji Simo (French-American businessperson and CEO)
- Daniela Amodei (president and co-founder of Anthropic)
- Suchir Balaji (American artificial intelligence researcher (1998–2024))
- Peter Steinberger (Austrian AI developer and entrepreneur)
- Leopold Aschenbrenner (German-American AI researcher)
- Jan Leike (AI safety researcher)
- Pieter Abbeel (machine learning researcher at UC Berkeley)
- Fred von Lohmann (American lawyer)
- Peter Eckersley (Australian computer scientist, security researcher, and activist (1978/1979–2022))
- Daniel Bendisi Kokotajlo (American AI researcher (born 1992))
- Amanda Askell (philosopher and AI safety researcher)

## Investors

- [Microsoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-microsoft.md)
- [SoftBank Group](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-softbank-group.md)
- [Sequoia Capital](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-sequoia-capital.md)
- Andreessen Horowitz
- [Khosla Ventures](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-khosla-ventures.md)
- [Thrive Capital](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-thrive-capital.md)

## Revenue

- 2016-01-01: USD 13.8 million (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 33.2 million (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 50 million (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 31.9 million (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 3.5 million (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 11.7 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 44.5 thousand (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 5.4 million (Wikidata)
- 2026-01-01: USD 25 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: [OpenAI OpCo](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-openai-opco.md), [OpenAI Group PBC](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-openai-group-pbc.md)

## Products

- GPT-3
- DALL-E
- ChatGPT
- GPT-4
- GPT-5

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on OpenAI, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-openai#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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