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Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Company Description

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit.

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Funding

Total Raised

$11.3 billion

Valuation

$80 billion

Significant Investors

Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund

Company Traction

As of August 2023, OpenAI surpassed a $1 billion revenue run rate.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million users in 2 months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer app ever.

ChatGPT attracted close to 1.6 billion visits in March 2023.

OpenAI jumped 15 spots since last quarter, up to 3rd overall for most in-demand shares in the venture capital secondary market, according to Setter Capital.

OpenAI recently extended its partnership with Microsoft and finalized partnerships with Stripe, Slack, Bain & Company, and Zoom.

Leadership Team

Sam Altman: Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI. Former President at Y Combinator.

Greg Brockman: Co-Founder, President, and Chairman of OpenAI. Former CTO at Stripe.

‍Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Former Research Scientist at Google.

Wojciech Zaremba: Co-Founder of OpenAI. Former Research Scientist at Google Brain.

Brad Lightcap: COO at OpenAI. Former Investor at Y Combinator.‍

Mira Murati: CTO at OpenAI. Former VP of Product & Engineering at Leap Motion.

Press

CNBC (May 11, 2023): Why ChatGPT developer OpenAI is the No. 1 company on the 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50 list

Fast Company (May 10, 2023): How OpenAI may keep enterprises from building their own AI models

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