Anthropic vs OpenAI
Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.
OpenAI is the older of the two, founded in 2015 — 6 years before Anthropic.
- Founded
- 2021
- 2015
- Status
- Active
- Active
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- San Francisco, United States
- Industry
- artificial intelligence
- artificial intelligence
- Founders
- Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Chris Olah, Jared Kaplan
- Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, John Schulman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Diederik P. Kingma, Pamela Vagata, Elon Musk
- Employees
- 2,500
- 4,500
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Delaware corporation
Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Anthropic and OpenAI.