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OpenAI
AI research and product company behind ChatGPT, the GPT model family, and the OpenAI API used across assistants, agents, and enterprise apps.
Last reviewed: 24 July 2026
Overview
AI research and product company behind ChatGPT, the GPT model family, and the OpenAI API used across assistants, agents, and enterprise apps.
Company profile
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founders
- Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman
- CEO
- Sam Altman
- Funding
- Private (Microsoft strategic partnership)
- Ownership
- Private
- Country
- United States
- Open source
- No
- Cloud provider
- No
- Website
- https://openai.com
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