OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. It develops advanced foundation models and products such
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. It develops advanced foundation models and products such as GPT language models, DALL·E (text-to-image), and Sora (text-to-video), offered via ChatGPT and APIs for developers and enterprises. The organization combines frontier research, product deployment, and AI safety/policy work, with a stated focus on building safe and beneficial general-purpose AI. OpenAI has transitioned from a nonprofit to a capped-profit and now a public benefit corporation structure.
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor; former president of Y Combinator; co-founded OpenAI and has led it through its transition from nonprofit to capped-profit and now public benefit structure and rapid growth of ChatGPT and GPT-4-class models.
LinkedInMira Murati
Leads engineering and research teams responsible for products such as ChatGPT, GPT-4-class models, and DALL·E; has become a prominent public face of OpenAI's technology roadmap and safety initiatives.
LinkedInBrad Lightcap
Oversees operations, partnerships, and commercial strategy, including major deals such as the Microsoft partnership and enterprise go-to-market.
LinkedInGreg Brockman
Former CTO of Stripe; co-founded OpenAI and has overseen engineering and product strategy for its large-scale models and infrastructure.
LinkedInJason Kwon
Leads corporate strategy, including governance structure changes (nonprofit to capped-profit to PBC), fundraising strategy, and long-term AGI roadmap positioning.
LinkedInIlya Sutskever
Leading deep learning researcher, co-author of influential work on sequence-to-sequence models and ImageNet; previously a key researcher at Google Brain before co-founding OpenAI.
Diane Yoon
Leads people operations, recruiting, and culture initiatives, including diversity and inclusion programs and remote/hybrid work policies.
LinkedInElon Musk
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; early proponent and funder of OpenAI focused on AI safety concerns. Left the board in 2018.
Jan Leike
Led research on aligning superhuman AI systems with human values and safety constraints at OpenAI before departing in 2024.
Wojciech Zaremba
Machine learning researcher focused on robotics and deep learning; previously at Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and Google.
LinkedInJohn Schulman
Leading researcher in reinforcement learning; contributed to Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and other algorithms.
