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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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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OpenAI’s ‘Pacing 2.0’ Problem: How Smart Is Too Smart?

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Oct 20, 2026 7:01am PDT
OpenAI is bound to get a reality check soon, if it hasn’t already, on how difficult it is to “pace” AI technology, let alone getting all the frontier AI developers to agree on how to do so together.CEO Sam Altman last week walked employees through three proposals the industry has discussed for how to safely develop AI, we reported yesterday.... OpenAI is bound to get a reality check soon, if it hasn’t already, on how difficult it is to “...
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The Information Announces New OpenAI, Google, Finance and Asia Reporters

By The Information Staff · Oct 19, 2026 10:33am PDT
The Information is pleased to announce new reporters who will carry on the publication’s rich track record of reporting exclusive news on the most important people and companies in business. They’ll report on OpenAI, Google, Asia and finance. Jemima McEvoy, OpenAI Jemima McEvoy is changing roles to take on the OpenAI beat. In just over a year at... The Information is pleased to announce new reporters who will carry on the publication’s rich...
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,...