OpenAI vs Perplexity AI
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 — 7 years before Perplexity AI.
- Founded
- 2015
- 2022
- Status
- Active
- Active
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- San Francisco, United States
- Industry
- artificial intelligence
- artificial intelligence
- Founders
- Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, John Schulman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Diederik P. Kingma, Pamela Vagata, Elon Musk
- Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Andrew Konwinski
- Employees
- 4,500
- 52
- Legal form
- Delaware corporation
- Delaware corporation
Facts on both companies come from the public records named on OpenAI and Perplexity AI.