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OpenAI

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2015

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OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, John Schulman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Diederik P. Kingma, Pamela Vagata and Elon Musk, and is based in San Francisco, United States.

Key facts

Industry
artificial intelligence
Legal form
Delaware corporation
Employees
4,500 (2026)
Revenue
USD 25,000,000,000 (2026)
Identifiers
ISIN, LEI and subsidiaries

About

American artificial intelligence research organization

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We hold 27 other artificial intelligence companies founded in the 2010s. None has a closure on record yet.

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