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OpenAI

Late Stage

AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT & GPT-4o

AITotal Raised: $13B👥 1001-5000 Employees📍 San Francisco, USA

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4o, Dall-E, and Sora, OpenAI pioneered the modern generative AI revolution. The company builds foundational multimodal AI systems capable of advanced reasoning, code synthesis, and natural language understanding. Partnered with Microsoft and backed by leading global venture funds, OpenAI's infrastructure serves over 200 million weekly active users and top Fortune 500 enterprises.

Founders & Leadership

Sam AltmanCo-Founder & CEO
Greg BrockmanCo-Founder & President
Ilya SutskeverCo-Founder
Wojciech ZarembaCo-Founder
John SchulmanCo-Founder
Elon MuskCo-Founder
Sarah FriarCFO
Jakub PachockiChief Scientist

Funding History

5 rounds
Strategic RoundLATEST ROUNDValuation: $157B
Oct 2, 2024
RAISED$10B
Strategic RoundValuation: $29B
Jan 23, 2023
RAISED$10B
Tender OfferValuation: $14B
Dec 1, 2021
RAISED$300M
Strategic RoundValuation: $1B
Jul 22, 2019
RAISED$1B
INVESTORS
Pre-SeedValuation: N/A
Dec 11, 2015
RAISED$1B

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