The story of OpenAI
American artificial intelligence research organization, founded as a nonprofit in December 2015; it added a capped-profit arm, OpenAI LP, in 2019 and recapitalized it as OpenAI Group PBC in October 2025.
Dec 2015 –
OpenAI. American artificial intelligence research organization, founded as a nonprofit in December 2015; it added a capped-profit arm, OpenAI LP, in 2019 and recapitalized it as OpenAI Group PBC in October 2025.
Dec 2015
Elon Musk founded OpenAI. Co-chair.
Greg Brockman founded OpenAI. CTO.
Ilya Sutskever founded OpenAI. Research director.
Amazon funded OpenAI. Donor, through Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Elon Musk funded OpenAI. Donor.
One of the launch donors; together they committed $1 billion. A pledge, not money received; amounts per donor were not given.
Greg Brockman funded OpenAI. Donor.
2015
Dec 2015: Infosys funded OpenAI. Donor. Jessica Livingston funded OpenAI. Donor. Peter Thiel funded OpenAI. Donor. Reid Hoffman funded OpenAI. Donor.
Dec 2015 – 17 Nov 2023: Sam Altman, board member of OpenAI.
Dec 2015 – Feb 2018: Elon Musk, board member of OpenAI. Co-chair.
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