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OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising both a nonprofit foundation and a controlled for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), headquartered in San Francisco. It aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work".

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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research organization based in San Francisco that operates as both a nonprofit and a for-profit company. It focuses on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI)—highly autonomous AI systems that could eventually outperform humans at most economically valuable tasks—while emphasizing safety and societal benefit.

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Company.name: OpenAI
Company.logo: frameless|upright=1.1|class=skin-invert
Company.type: Private
Company.industry: Artificial intelligence
Company.hq_location: 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.
Company.revenue:  billion
Company.revenue_year: 2025
Company.net_income: US$ billion
Company.suppressfields: assets
Company.num_employees: 4,500 (2026)

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Founding
Corporate structure
Transition from non-profit
2025 restructuring
Partnership with Microsoft
Finances
Business model
Acquisitions
Corporate partnerships
Government contracting
Services
Products
Development
Transparency
Alignment
Leaked conversations
Management
Key employees
Board of directors of the OpenAI nonprofit
Principal individual investors
Firing of Altman
Personnel changes
Governance and legal issues
Non-disparagement agreements
Copyright
GDPR compliance
Military and warfare
Wrongful-death lawsuits over ChatGPT safety (2025)
Murder of Suzanne Adams
2026 Canadian mass shooting
See also
References
Further reading
External links

OpenAI is widely recognized for its development of the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and the Sora series of text-to-video models, which have influenced industry research and commercial applications. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing widespread interest in generative AI.