OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company. It was founded in December 2015 with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI initially began as a non-profit organization but transitioned to a capped-profit model in 2019 before restructuring into a public benefit corporation (PBC) overseen by the non-profit OpenAI Foundation in 2025. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, with Bret Taylor as chairman and Greg Brockman as president. Other key executives include Sarah Friar (CFO), Mark Chen (Chief Research Officer), and Julia Villagra (Chief People Officer). OpenAI is known for its generative AI models and products, including ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex and Whisper. Recently, OpenAI has been testing ads in the free version of ChatGPT. In February 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, a coding model that it says helped build itself. CEO Sam Altman has also announced that the company's revenue growth is accelerating.