What is OpenAI known for?

The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race. Landmarks: Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models (2020); Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3) (2020); Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision (CLIP) (2021); Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (InstructGPT) (2022).

Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer; Vijaye Raji, CTO of Applications; Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist.

What kind of organization is OpenAI?

Startup lab, founded in 2015, based in San Francisco.

OpenAI

Startup lab · founded 2015 · San Francisco, United States · about 4,500 people (Mar 2026)

Website

The GPT models and ChatGPT, and the scaling results that set off the large language model race.

Known for

Year	Contribution	Source
2020	Scaling Laws for Neural Language Modelsarxiv.org	arxiv.org
2020	Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)arxiv.org	arxiv.org
2021	Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision (CLIP)arxiv.org	arxiv.org
2022	Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (InstructGPT)arxiv.org	arxiv.org
2022	Introducing ChatGPTopenai.com	openai.com

Leaders

On Leaders

Person	Role	Source
Sam AltmanChief Executive Officeren.wikipedia.org	Chief Executive Officer · since 2019	en.wikipedia.org
Vijaye RajiCTO of Applicationstechcrunch.com	CTO of Applications · since Sep 2025	techcrunch.com
Jakub PachockiChief Scientisttheverge.com	Chief Scientist · since May 2024	theverge.com
Sachin KattiLeads compute infrastructure for AGIcrn.com	Leads compute infrastructure for AGI · since Nov 2025	crn.com

Models

On Models

Model	Standing
GPT-6 AstraFlagship	#2 on the Models podium
GPT-5.6 Sol	#6 on the Models podium
GPT-5.5	#10 on the Models podium
GPT-5.4 Pro	#12 on the Models podium
GPT-6 Sol	#19 on the Models podium

Papers on Papers

Lab page on Papers

Date	Paper
Sep 2025	Why Language Models Hallucinate
Mar 2023	GPT-4 Technical Report
Mar 2022	Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
May 2020	Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
Jan 2020	Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

Funding and compute

Date	Deal	Source
Mar 31, 2026	Private round$122B, at an $852B post-money valuationopenai.com	openai.com
Nov 3, 2025	Compute: Amazon Web ServicesMulti-year AWS compute partnershipopenai.com	openai.com
Oct 13, 2025	Compute: Broadcom10 GW of custom AI acceleratorsopenai.com	openai.com
Oct 6, 2025	Compute: AMD6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUsopenai.com	openai.com
Sep 22, 2025	Compute: NVIDIAAt least 10 GW of NVIDIA systemsopenai.com	openai.com
Jan 21, 2025	Compute: Stargate (SoftBank, Oracle, MGX)The Stargate Project: up to $500B of US AI infrastructure over four yearsopenai.com	openai.com

Links

Where	Link
Website	openai.com
Blog	openai.com/news
GitHub	openai
Hugging Face	openai
X	@OpenAI
Papers	Lab page on Papers
Blogs	OpenAI News on Blogs
Models	14 ranked models on Models
Leaders	Leadership on Leaders
Companies	OpenAI across fru.dev

About, sources and history

Type: Startup lab, ai research
Headcount: About 4,500 (Mar 2026), wikidata.org
Sources: wikidata.org Q21708200
Registry: OpenAI on Companies

History

2026-09-24 Added to Labs