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OpenAI
Last Updated
August 31, 2023
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OpenAI

An AI research and deployment company that created ChatGPT.

About

Industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Website

Link

jobs

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Funding History

funding

$11.3 billion

Valuation

$27-$29 billion

Notable investors

Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund

Traction

  • As of August 2023, OpenAI surpassed a $1 billion revenue run rate.
  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT reached 100 million users in 2 months after launch, making it the fastest-growing consumer app ever.
  • ChatGPT attracted close to 1.6 billion visits in March 2023.
  • OpenAI jumped 15 spots since last quarter, up to 3rd overall for most in-demand shares in the venture capital secondary market, according to Setter Capital.

Leadership

  • Sam Altman: Co-Founder & CEO of OpenAI. Former President at Y Combinator.
  • Greg Brockman: Co-Founder, President, and Chairman of OpenAI. Former CTO at Stripe.
  • Ilya Sutskever: Co-Founder & Chief Scientist of OpenAI. Former Research Scientist at Google.
  • Wojciech Zaremba: Co-Founder of OpenAI. Former Research Scientist at Google Brain.
  • Mira Murati: CTO at OpenAI. Former VP of Product & Engineering at Leap Motion.

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