openai.com · Market Analysis

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research organization headquartered in San Francisco,…

Team
  • Sam AltmanCOFOUNDER • CEO
  • Greg BrockmanCOFOUNDER • Co-founder, President (former CTO)
  • Ilya SutskeverCOFOUNDER • Co-founder, former Chief Scientist
  • Elon MuskCOFOUNDER
  • Wojciech ZarembaCOFOUNDER
  • John SchulmanCOFOUNDER
Categories
Technology / Artificial IntelligenceAI researchGenerative AI productsEnterprise AI services
Business Model
SaaS + Research-led productization (API & enterprise licensing)
Funding
Total Raisedapprox. $64B+ primary; $6.6B+ secondary
Last RoundSecondary / tender offer · $6.6B+ — 2025
Markets
United StatesEuropeAPACEMEAGlobal

Players (30)

Anthropic logo

Anthropic

anthropic.com

AI safety and research company that develops the Claude family of large language models and related products for businesses and developers.[2]

Google DeepMind logo

Google DeepMind

deepmind.google

Alphabet’s artificial intelligence research lab developing advanced AI systems and foundation models such as Gemini, AlphaFold, and AlphaGo.[1][2]

xAI logo

xAI

x.ai

AI company founded by Elon Musk that builds advanced large language models, including the Grok assistant, as a direct competitor to ChatGPT.[1][2]

Cohere logo

Cohere

cohere.com

Provider of foundation language models and enterprise AI solutions focused on secure, deployable LLMs for businesses and regulated industries.[1][2][3]

Mistral AI logo

Mistral AI

mistral.ai

French-origin AI company building high‑performance open and proprietary large language models and tooling for research and commercial use.[1][2][4]

Meta AI logo

Meta AI

ai.meta.com

Meta’s artificial intelligence division developing state‑of‑the‑art models for language, vision, and multimodal AI that compete with systems like ChatGPT.[1][2]

IBM watsonx logo

IBM watsonx

www.ibm.com

IBM’s enterprise AI and data platform offering generative AI and large language models for building, tuning, and deploying AI applications at scale.[1][4]

Hugging Face logo

Hugging Face

huggingface.co

Community-driven AI company providing a hub for models and datasets plus tools and hosting for building and deploying machine learning and LLM applications.[1][3]

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Google Gemini

gemini.google.com

Google’s family of large language models, delivered through products like Gemini (formerly Bard), positioned as a direct alternative to ChatGPT for search and assistant use cases.[2][6]

AI21 Labs logo

AI21 Labs

www.ai21.com

AI company developing large language models and applications such as Wordtune and the Jurassic model family for text generation and developer tooling.[2]

Funding Rounds

Founding pledges / initial commitments (nonprofit) · $1B pledged; $130M actually contributed by 20192015
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys
Formation of capped‑profit OpenAI LP, commercial partnership · $1B investment package (cash + compute credits)2019
Khosla Ventures, Microsoft, Reid Hoffman
Venture / equity financing (undisclosed)2021
Strategic investment (multi‑year) · Up to $10B investment (mix of cash and Azure spend/credits)2023
Microsoft
Primary round (largest private tech funding round) · $40B2025
SoftBank, Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, Thrive Capital
Primary round / capital raise · $6.6B2024
Microsoft, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Thrive Capital
Secondary / tender offer · $6.6B+2025
Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, MGX, T. Rowe Price