OpenAI, Inc.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company building frontier AI systems and products. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
At a Glance
- Consumers
- Developers and startups
- Large enterprises
- Financial services
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AI Tools by OpenAI, Inc.
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OpenAI Guardrails (Python)
LLM Input Output Validation Library
OpenAI CLI
Command Line Tool for OpenAI API
Swarm
Python Multi Agent Orchestration
OpenAI Evals
LLM Evaluation Framework in Python
Codex Security
AI Application Security Agent
simple-evals
OpenAI LLM Benchmark Eval Library
OpenAI Agents SDK
OpenAI Agents SDK
Codex Plugin for Claude Code
Codex CLI Plugin for Claude Code
OpenAI Symphony
Elixir Multi Agent Orchestration
OpenAI Skills
AI Agent Skills and Templates
Discussions
SMDot, Dot, Dot… Done. What Actually Shipped at DevDay 2026
OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 marks a massive shift: we are moving away from chatbots that wait for you to type, and moving toward background agents that run on their own. But if you look past the slick marketing, early data from real testers and developer forums reveals serious engineering hurdles, massive …
DOOpenAI releases 722 mathematics manuscripts for public scrutiny
October 6. OpenAI released 722 AI-generated manuscripts grouped into 372 result families, produced with an unreleased internal frontier model. Related manuscripts can describe alternative approaches or companion results, so the manuscript count is not a count of distinct solved open problems. Resear…
JEWho checks that the formal proof matches the claim?
OpenAI’s math release has 722 manuscripts, and many come with Lean formalizations. The part I want to understand is how reviewers check that the formal theorem matches the claim in the paper. A proof can check out under its stated assumptions, while novelty and what the result means still need a hum…
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Products & Services
Conversational AI product for answering questions, writing, analysis, coding, image and voice interaction, research, and agentic work.
Developer platform providing API access to OpenAI language, reasoning, vision, audio, image and video models, with tools for agents and production applications.
General-purpose frontier models for language understanding and generation, reasoning, multimodal interaction, coding and tool use.
Image-generation models that create and edit images from natural-language prompts.
Market Position
OpenAI is positioned as a vertically integrated frontier-AI company spanning foundational research, consumer applications, developer APIs and enterprise agents. It competes with Anthropic, Google DeepMind/Gemini, Meta, xAI, Mistral and Cohere in models and assistants; Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS and other hyperscalers in AI platforms; and specialized coding, image, video and agent companies. Its differentiation is the combination of high-end models, ChatGPT distribution, a large API ecosystem, multimodal products and substantial compute partnerships, while its scale and capital intensity are major strategic requirements.
Leadership
Founders
Sam Altman
Technology entrepreneur and former president of Y Combinator; OpenAI co-chair at launch and current CEO.
Elon Musk
Technology entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; OpenAI co-chair at launch and former board member.
Ilya Sutskever
Machine-learning researcher, formerly at the University of Toronto and Google Brain; OpenAI's founding research director and former chief scientist.
Greg Brockman
Software engineer and entrepreneur; formerly CTO and an early employee of Stripe; OpenAI founding CTO and current president.
Trevor Blackwell
Robotics researcher and engineer known for robotics and autonomous systems work.
Vicki Cheung
Software engineer and technology leader; founding research engineer at OpenAI.
Andrej Karpathy
Machine-learning researcher; formerly at Stanford and director of AI at Tesla; founding OpenAI researcher.
Durk Kingma
Machine-learning researcher known for variational inference and Adam optimization; formerly at Google and OpenAI.
John Schulman
Machine-learning researcher and reinforcement-learning specialist; formerly at UC Berkeley and OpenAI.
Pamela Vagata
Software engineer and founding member of OpenAI's research team.
Wojciech Zaremba
Machine-learning researcher focused on language models and robotics; formerly at Google; OpenAI co-founder and research leader.
Executive Team
Sam Altman
Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Former president of Y Combinator and technology entrepreneur; OpenAI co-chair at launch.
Greg Brockman
President and Co-founder
Former CTO and early employee of Stripe; founding CTO of OpenAI.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
OpenAI launched in December 2015 as a nonprofit research company because its founders believed increasingly capable AI could benefit humanity but could also cause serious harm if developed or used incorrectly. The initial vision was an institution unconstrained by the need to generate financial returns, with research shared broadly and a focus on ensuring that advanced digital intelligence benefited humanity as a whole.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Paid ChatGPT subscriptions for individuals and organizations, usage-based API and platform charges for developers, enterprise contracts and licenses, and infrastructure/product partnerships. OpenAI also sells higher-capability access and usage tiers for agentic, research and coding features.
Pricing Tiers
Limited access to models, uploads, image creation, voice, deep research, memory, Codex and ChatGPT Work.
Expanded messages, uploads, image creation, voice and memory.
Advanced reasoning, expanded uploads and research, projects, tasks, custom GPTs and expanded Codex.
Higher usage tiers, Pro reasoning, maximum deep research and expanded agent/productivity access.
Developers pay per token, image, audio/video operation or tool usage; enterprise terms can be negotiated.
Target Markets
- Consumers
- Developers and startups
- Large enterprises
- Financial services
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Education
- Everyday personal assistance, writing, learning and research
- Software development, code review, debugging and repository automation
- Enterprise knowledge search and workflow automation
- Customer service and conversational agents
- Content, image, audio and video creation
- Data analysis and document processing
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