OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company headquartered in San Francisco, organized as a nonprofit foundation that governs a for‑profit public benefit corporation. Founded in December 2015, the organization says it focuses on advancing and safely deploying powerful AI systems and on ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI develops both consumer-facing products and developer platforms, and it publishes model and system cards to explain capabilities and safety considerations. Its product and research portfolio includes the ChatGPT family (Free / Plus / Enterprise / Edu offerings, Custom GPTs and plugins), the OpenAI API and platform for developers, the GPT model family (including notable GPT‑4, GPT‑4.5 and GPT‑5 series releases), multimodal and generative models such as DALL·E (text→image), Whisper (speech‑to‑text), code models/Codex, and newer multimodal/video initiatives (Sora). OpenAI also offers enterprise and government-focused products (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Gov) and works with partners on infrastructure and deployment. Notable milestones include popularizing large‑scale conversational assistants with ChatGPT (launched 2022), a sequence of frontier model releases, the public release of models and system cards, and announcements around publishing some open‑weight models (gpt-oss) in 2025. In company governance and corporate-structure developments, OpenAI has reiterated a foundation/governance role over its for‑profit entity and announced structural updates in late 2025. OpenAI continues to iterate on model capability and safety and to expand commercial and research offerings.

To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

• Founded December 2015 as an AI research initiative governed by a nonprofit foundation and operating a for‑profit public benefit corporation
• Popularized large‑scale conversational assistants with ChatGPT (launched 2022) and expanded into consumer, enterprise, and government offerings
• Develops and publishes frontier models in the GPT family (GPT‑4, GPT‑4.5, GPT‑5 series) and accompanying system/model cards
• Produces multimodal models and tools such as DALL·E (text→image), Whisper (speech‑to‑text), Codex/code models, and the Sora video/multimodal family
• Announced publication of some open‑weight models (gpt-oss) in 2025 and ongoing collaborations with Microsoft/Azure and NVIDIA for infrastructure

Sources

• OpenAI — About / Charter
• OpenAI — Introducing GPTs (product/blog)
• OpenAI — Platform / Partnerships (API)
• OpenAI — Introducing GPT‑4.5
• OpenAI — DALL·E 3
• OpenAI — Whisper (speech‑to‑text)
• OpenAI — Introducing OpenAI (founding post)
• OpenAI — Introducing GPT‑OSS (open weights announcement)