OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization founded in 2015. It created AI chatbot ChatGPT. Competitors include other AI research organizations such as DeepMind and Google Brain. OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, Greg Brockman, former chief technology officer and third employee of Stripe, and Ilya Sutskever, a former Google expert on machine learning. Microsoft has invested more than $11 billion in the company and is a nonvoting board observer. Current board members are Chair Bret Taylor, a former Salesforce co-CEO, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, left, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Images via Getty
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Why Cheaper Models Won’t Win OpenAI the Enterprise

By Laura Bratton · Oct 27, 2026 11:33am PDT
OpenAI is trying to chip away at Anthropic’s lead with enterprises by fashioning itself as a cheaper, more flexible provider, Steph and I reported this weekend. But Anthropic's impressive prospectus for an initial public offering, filed Monday, shows OpenAI will need to do a lot more than that to really move the needle.To be sure, OpenAI has... OpenAI is trying to chip away at Anthropic’s lead with enterprises by fashioning itself as a...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, left, and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman. Photos via Getty Images; art by Mike Sullivan

Anthropic’s Margin is OpenAI’s Opportunity

By Laura Bratton and Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 24, 2026 7:00am PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI’s efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. For instance, in May, Anthropic models powered 57% of the coding work of hundreds of engineers at Rippling, an HR software firm, while OpenAI models handled 16% of that work. Since then, the situation has reversed: 52% of the coding work is now handled by OpenAI models... OpenAI’s efforts to undercut Anthropic on price are producing some results. For instance, in May,...
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OpenAI, Anthropic Should Cap Compute for R&D, Say AI Safety Advocates

By Tiffany Li · Oct 21, 2026 7:00am PDT
Ideas are flowing fast and furious on how AI labs can “pace” AI development so safeguards keep up with the technology’s smarts. Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out three scenarios he said have been considered in the industry, including merging all of the AI labs into a single entity to develop new AI safely or creating a global regulatory... Ideas are flowing fast and furious on how AI labs can “pace” AI development so safeguards keep up...
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Encryption Under Siege? OpenAI, Anthropic Disprove Key Cryptography Theorem

By Jemima McEvoy and Tiffany Li · Oct 29, 2026 7:01am PDT
Cryptographers who develop encryption technologies may not be sleeping very well these days.OpenAI and Anthropic both said Monday that their internal AI models had disproven the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding computer science theorem that predicts the minimum difficulty of solving a certain category of problems. Cryptographers had... Cryptographers who develop encryption technologies may not be sleeping very well these days....
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OpenAI’s Astra Model Becomes Top Distillation Target for China’s AI Labs

By Jing Yang, Juro Osawa and Qianer Liu · Oct 28, 2026 6:00pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, the most powerful model the company has released, has met with strong demand since its release in early September. One growing customer base: Chinese AI labs that look to extract Astra’s capabilities. DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, two of China’s leading AI developers, relied heavily on outputs from Astra when training their own... OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, the most powerful model the company has released, has met with strong...
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OpenAI, a Longtime Nvidia Customer, Plans to Buy Google’s AI Chips

By Ryan Barwick · Oct 27, 2026 4:59pm PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer Nvidia. Financial terms and other details of OpenAI’s planned purchase couldn’t be learned. But any deal for it to buy tensor processing units would be a big win for Google’s chip business, which is a growing... OpenAI plans to buy Google’s AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost...