OpenAI

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OpenAI, AI research and deployment company, founded 2015 (incorporated 2018), headquartered in San Francisco, CA. It builds general-purpose AI models and products — most notably ChatGPT — targeting consumers, developers, and enterprises. After closing a $122B round at an $852B valuation in April 2026, it's the most heavily funded private tech company in history.

Key facts

Founded

2015

Founders

Greg Brockman, Andrej Karpathy, Elon Musk, Trevor Wiessmann

Employees

~8,800

Sectors

ai, saas, enterprise

Website

openai.com

Mission

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity, building safety-first AI systems and deploying them through consumer products, enterprise APIs, and infrastructure partnerships.

Recent activity

• Jun 2026fundraise
  OpenAI filed for an IPO, targeting a trillion-dollar valuation. The company is still losing money on each dollar earned. en.wikipedia.org
• Jun 2026product
  ChatGPT hit 1 billion monthly users, outpacing TikTok and YouTube. tracxn.com
• Jun 2026product
  OpenAI frontier models and Codex became generally available on AWS, letting enterprises build with OpenAI through existing AWS infrastructure. linkedin.com
• May 2026product
  An OpenAI model disproved the planar unit distance problem, a conjecture Paul Erdős first posed in 1946 that had resisted every attempt for nearly 80 years. x.com
• May 2026press
  OpenAI suffered a supply chain attack: code-signing certificates were compromised through a poisoned npm package. linkedin.com
• Apr 2026press
  The New Yorker published a report by Andrew Marantz and Ronan Farrow citing new interviews and previously undisclosed documents raising persistent doubts about CEO Sam Altman. x.com
• Apr 2026fundraise
  OpenAI closed a $75M Series G round on April 22, 2026, bringing total funding to $180B across 15 rounds. Investors in the broader Series G include BlackRock, D1 Capital Partners, Insight Partners, Goanna Capital, and Winslow Capital. tracxn.com
• Apr 2026press
  Co-founder Elon Musk revised his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman to seek reversal of OpenAI's corporate restructuring. OpenAI's board unanimously rejected Musk's approach, with chair Bret Taylor stating the company is not for sale. x.com
• May 2026product
  Launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, majority-owned by OpenAI, bringing together 19 investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help enterprises deploy frontier AI to production. x.com
• Apr 2026fundraise
  Closed a $122B funding round at a post-money valuation of $852B — the largest private tech fundraise in history. en.wikipedia.org
• Apr 2026press
  CFO Sarah Friar named to TIME's 2026 TIME100 list, with enterprise revenue now exceeding 40% of total and on track for parity with consumer. linkedin.com
• Mar 2026product
  Bloomberg reported OpenAI in advanced talks to form a joint venture with private equity firms to drive AI software adoption across their portfolio companies. x.com

Key people

Named individuals at the firm. We don't expose direct email or phone — use their LinkedIn for outreach.

• Greg Brockman · Co-Founder / President
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• Mira Murati · Former CTO / Interim CEO
• Andrej Karpathy · Co-Founder
• Sarah Friar · CFO
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• Bret Taylor · Board / Advisor
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• Sam Altman · CEO
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• Brad Lightcap · COO
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• Mark Chen · Chief Research Officer
• Kevin Weil · Chief Product Officer
• Jakub Pachocki · Chief Scientist

Sources

• OpenAI - Wikipedia
• OpenAI | LinkedIn
• OpenAI - 2026 Company Profile - Tracxn
• OpenAI Funding Rounds - Tracxn
• OpenAI Deployment Company announcement
• ChatGPT Health announcement
• OpenAI Jobs Platform - TechCrunch
• https://x.com/OpenAI
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vitalsergio_ai-googleio-nvidia-activity-7461384967885885440-U6jW?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAGmYiKoB7QCRXwFwL2rDkp57B9Es
• https://x.com/NewYorker/status/2041111369655964012?lang=en
• https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom

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