OpenAI

Overview

American artificial intelligence research organization known for creating ChatGPT, GPT-4, and other large language models. Mission: to ensure AGIF (Artificial General Intelligence for all) benefits humanity.

Key Facts

  • Founded: 2015-12-01

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA

  • Status: Capped-profit subsidiary of Microsoft

  • CEO: Sam Altman

  • Founded by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others

  • ChatGPT (launched Nov 2022) became the fastest-growing consumer app ever

  • GPT-4 is one of the most capable AI models (multimodal)

  • Microsoft is the largest investor (>$13B) and has an exclusive cloud partnership

  • OpenAI LP is the capped-profit parent; OpenAI GP is the general partner

  • Also develops Whisper (speech-to-text), DALL-E (image generation), and Codex (code)

Products Mentioned in Wiki

  • chatgpt
  • gpt-4
  • whisper
  • dall-e

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