OpenAI

A leading AI research and deployment company dedicated to creating safe and powerful artificial general intelligence (AGI) through frontier generative models and reasoning-capable systems.

Category: Generative AI

Location: San Francisco, United States

Founded:

CEO: Sam Altman

Total Funding: $30.9B

Stage: Late-stage growth; currently transitioning from a non-profit-controlled entity to a for-profit benefit corporation (Post-money valuation: $157B).

Team Size: 4,000+

Target Customer: Individual consumers, software developers, enterprise corporations (Fortune 500), academic researchers, and government agencies.

Value Proposition: Delivers state-of-the-art cognitive automation and reasoning capabilities that enhance productivity, creative workflows, and complex problem-solving across text, code, vision, and voice.

Unique Value: Pioneered the 'Reasoning' paradigm in LLMs (o1 series) which uses chain-of-thought processing to solve complex math and logic problems, such as the Erdős problem #281 solved by GPT-5.2 Pro.

Technology: Maintains a massive-scale compute advantage through a multi-billion dollar Microsoft partnership, combined with proprietary Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and 'o1' architecture that prioritizes inference-time compute for higher-order logic.

Differentiation: Pioneered the 'Reasoning' paradigm with the o1 series and GPT-5.2 Pro, utilizing inference-time compute to solve complex logic and mathematical problems (e.g., Erdős problems) that standard LLMs cannot. OpenAI maintains a significant first-mover advantage with ChatGPT's massive consumer footprint and a deep vertical integration with Microsoft's Azure infrastructure.

Market Position: Dominant leader in frontier generative AI and AGI research; primary platform provider for both consumer AI and enterprise-grade API integration.

Competitors: ["Google (Gemini)","Anthropic (Claude)","Meta (Llama)","xAI (Grok)"]

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