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openai.com
visit openai.comOpenAI is an American AI research and deployment company headquartered in San Francisco, with a…
Team
- Sam AltmanCOFOUNDER • CEO
- Greg BrockmanCOFOUNDER • President
- Elon MuskCOFOUNDER
- Ilya SutskeverCOFOUNDER
- Trevor BlackwellCOFOUNDER
- Vicki CheungCOFOUNDER
- Andrej KarpathyCOFOUNDER
- Durk KingmaCOFOUNDER
- John SchulmanCOFOUNDER
- Pamela VagataCOFOUNDER
- Wojciech ZarembaCOFOUNDER
Categories
Artificial IntelligenceAI ResearchAI ModelsAPI ServicesGenerative AI
Business Model
SaaS
Funding
Total Raised$63.92B
Last RoundSeries F · $40B — 2025
Markets
United StatesIrelandUnited KingdomJapanEurope
Players (18)
Anthropic
anthropic.com
AI safety and research company developing large language models like Claude, founded by former OpenAI employees.
Perplexity
perplexity.ai
AI-powered search and answer engine providing cited responses from web sources.
Stability AI
stability.ai
Developer of open-source AI models for image generation like Stable Diffusion.
AI21 Labs
www.ai21.com
AI research company offering large language models for text generation and tasks.
Funding Rounds
Seed · $100M2015
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman,
Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys
Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services, Infosys
Series A · $1B2016
Microsoft, LinkedIn
Series B · $2B2017
Microsoft, Reid Hoffman
Series C · $3B2019
Microsoft
Series D · $6B2021
Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital
Series E · $6.6B2024
Microsoft, Nvidia, SoftBank, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures,
Altimeter Capital, Fidelity, Tiger Global, MGX
Altimeter Capital, Fidelity, Tiger Global, MGX
Series F · $40B2025
Tender Offer · $6.6B2025