The profile below focuses on OpenAI, as this is the AI company most discussed in the search results, and the one most likely intended in the user's prompt.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization comprising a non-profit foundation and a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), with its headquarters in San Francisco. Founded on December 8, 2015, OpenAI aims to develop "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence (AGI), defining it as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". OpenAI is known for its development of the GPT family of large language models, DALL-E series of text-to-image models, and Sora series of text-to-video models.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. Other key people include Bret Taylor (chairman), Greg Brockman (president), Sarah Friar (CFO), and Fidji Simo (CEO of Applications). In November 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, which catalyzed widespread interest in generative AI. Microsoft holds a significant stake in OpenAI. In March 2025, OpenAI reached an agreement with CoreWeave to acquire $350 million worth of CoreWeave shares for access to AI infrastructure. OpenAI is currently in the midst of a massive fundraising round aimed at raising more than $100 billion. Recently, OpenAI accused Chinese companies of using "distillation" to extract capabilities from its models.
