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AI Research · San Francisco, CA · Est. 2015
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$852B
Valuation
$11.6B
Revenue
3k+
Employees
2015
Founded

OpenAI is the world's leading AI research company, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-5, Sora, and the OpenAI API — serving 910M weekly active users and 9M+ paying business customers. The company hit $25B in annualised revenue in early 2026 and raised $122B at an $852B valuation, positioning for a potential 2027 IPO.

Recent Press
5 items
Press Release·2026-04-01
OpenAI Raises $122B at $852B Valuation
OpenAI closed a $122B funding round in April 2026, the largest in startup history, valuing the company at $852B as it accelerates infrastructure investment and prepares for a potential IPO.
Press Release·2026-02-01
ChatGPT Reaches 910M Weekly Active Users
OpenAI announced ChatGPT crossed 910 million weekly active users in early 2026, with 9M+ paying business customers and $25B in annualised revenue.
Product Launch·2025-08-07
OpenAI Launches GPT-5 for All ChatGPT Users
OpenAI released GPT-5 on August 7, 2025 across all ChatGPT tiers including Free users, delivering 45% fewer hallucinations than GPT-4o and setting new state-of-the-art benchmarks in math, coding, and multimodal understanding.
Product Launch·2025-05-01
OpenAI Launches Codex, Its Cloud-Based AI Coding Agent
OpenAI launched Codex, a cloud-based autonomous coding agent that writes and tests code in parallel sandboxed environments, directly competing with GitHub Copilot and Anthropic's Claude Code.
Product Launch·2025-04-16
OpenAI Releases o3 and o4-mini Reasoning Models
OpenAI launched its most advanced reasoning models o3 and o4-mini on April 16, 2025, with o3 achieving 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified and being the first reasoning model to natively integrate web browsing and image generation.
Company History
10 milestones
Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, and others co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit AI safety research organisation in San Francisco.

OpenAI Organization Structure & Team

Org Chart
3,000 employees · Click a leader to explore their team
2,900 across 12 departments
Chief Executive Officer
Sam Altman
Greg Brockman — Departments
· 2900 people across 12 depts

OpenAI Financials, Revenue & Market Share

Annual Revenue
$11.6B
~100% vs prior year
YoY Growth
~100%
From $0.03B to $11.6B
Revenue / Employee
$3.87M
Annual revenue per full-time employee
Revenue Growth
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
$0.03B
$0.3B
$1.6B
$3.7B
$11.6B
Market Share
AI API / Foundation Model Market
55%
share
OpenAI
55%
Google Gemini
20%
Anthropic
15%
Meta Llama
10%
$78.6B
TAM
$15.7B
SAM
$2.4B
SOM
Revenue Streams
ChatGPT Subscriptions50%
API Revenue35%
Enterprise & Partnerships15%
Business Units
ChatGPT (Consumer & Teams)50%
Direct B2C and B2B AI assistant platform
API Platform35%
Developer and enterprise API access to frontier models
Strategic Partnerships15%
Microsoft Azure integration, enterprise agreements

OpenAI Internal Tools & Processes

Internal Tools
12 departments
Research400 people · 3 roles
Standards & Certifications
10 standards
Compliance frameworks, security audits, and quality certifications this company maintains.
Security
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Annual security audit of OpenAI platform controls covering ChatGPT and API infrastructure.
Security
ISO 27001
Certified
Information security management certification for OpenAI global operations and model infrastructure.
Privacy
GDPR
Compliant
EU data protection compliance enabling OpenAI to serve European users and enterprise customers.
Privacy
CCPA
Compliant
California Consumer Privacy Act compliance for ChatGPT and API user data handling.
Security
PCI DSS Level 1
Certified
OpenAI maintains PCI DSS Level 1 certification for its billing infrastructure handling payments from ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Team, and ChatGPT Enterprise subscribers globally.
Privacy
HIPAA
Compliant
OpenAI offers HIPAA-compliant API access under Business Associate Agreements for healthcare enterprise customers building clinical applications on GPT-4 and other OpenAI models.
Privacy
CPRA
Compliant
OpenAI complies with the California Privacy Rights Act, giving California residents rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data collected through ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.
Regulatory
FedRAMP
In Progress
OpenAI is pursuing FedRAMP Moderate authorization for its enterprise API and ChatGPT Enterprise products to enable US federal government agencies to use GPT-4 and other models in compliant environments.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1
Compliant
OpenAI designs ChatGPT's web interface and mobile applications to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA accessibility standards, ensuring that AI-powered tools are usable by people with disabilities.
Security
CSA STAR
Certified
OpenAI holds CSA STAR Level 2 certification, providing enterprise customers with independent third-party assurance of OpenAI's cloud security controls protecting model training infrastructure and customer data.

OpenAI Interview Preparation

Interview Prep
Role-specific interview questions and keywords. Select a department, then click any role to prepare.
Research· 3 roles

OpenAI Products & Competitors

Product Suite
7 products · select one to explore
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AI
ChatGPT
The world's most widely used AI assistant

ChatGPT is OpenAI's consumer and business AI assistant with 910M weekly active users — available as Free, Plus ($20/mo), Pro ($200/mo), Team, and Enterprise tiers — enabling individuals and organisations to write, analyse, code, reason, and create with frontier AI models.

Use Cases
Knowledge Work Assistance & ResearchCode Writing & DebuggingBusiness Content Creation & Summarisation
ChatGPT
Key Customers
SHPF
Shopify
SNAP
Snap
SF
Salesforce
Competitive Intelligence
VSAnthropic Claude
THEM

Claude is Anthropic's family of large language models offering text generation, code assistance, document analysis, and agentic task completion through the Claude API and Claude.ai interface, designed with a focus on safety, helpfulness, and harmlessness.

EDGE

Constitutional AI safety approach & enterprise trust

VSGoogle Gemini
THEM

Google Gemini is Google's family of multimodal large language models integrated across Google Workspace, Android, and the Gemini API, offering text, image, audio, and code generation capabilities for consumer and enterprise use.

EDGE

Native integration across Google Workspace, Search, and Android

VSMeta Llama
THEM

Meta Llama is Meta's family of open-source large language models released for research and commercial use, including Llama 3, enabling developers to fine-tune and self-host capable foundation models across a wide range of natural language tasks.

EDGE

Open-weight models with zero API cost for self-hosters