openai.com · Market Analysis

OpenAI 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)

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Anthropic

anthropic.com

AI safety and research company developing large language models like Claude, founded by former OpenAI employees.

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xAI

x.ai

Artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk, focusing on advanced AI systems.

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Perplexity

perplexity.ai

AI-powered search and answer engine providing cited responses from web sources.

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Inflection AI

inflection.ai

AI company developing personal AI assistants like Pi.

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Cohere

cohere.com

Provider of enterprise-focused large language models for business applications.

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Stability AI

stability.ai

Developer of open-source AI models for image generation like Stable Diffusion.

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AI21 Labs

www.ai21.com

AI research company offering large language models for text generation and tasks.

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Reka

reka.ai

AI company building multimodal language models.

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Character.AI

character.ai

Platform for creating and interacting with AI characters and chatbots.

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EleutherAI

eleuther.ai

Open-source AI research organization developing large language models like GPT-J.

Funding Rounds

Seed · $100M2015
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, 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
Series F · $40B2025
SoftBank, Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter Capital, Thrive Capital
Tender Offer · $6.6B2025