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 Raises the Safety Bar on Anthropic; Anthropic Expands Its Revenue Lead

By Amir Efrati · Aug 19, 2026 7:01am PDT

In the Anthropic-OpenAI horse race, the now-much-smaller OpenAI has been looking to slow down its ascendant rival. That includes undercutting Anthropic’s model prices, as we covered yesterday, and playing nice with federal officials that have gone to war with Anthropic.Another potential avenue is safety. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday... In the Anthropic-OpenAI horse race, the now-much-smaller OpenAI has been looking to slow down its...

Art by Clark Miller.

OpenAI Gains Against Anthropic Among OpenRouter Customers

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 18, 2026 7:01am PDT · 1 comment

OpenAI has found a new place to fight Anthropic for developer wallets: OpenRouter, a service AI app developers use to access models from different providers from one application programming interface. (In case you’ve been under a rock, Stripe is about to buy OpenRouter for a pretty penny.)A big chunk of OpenRouter’s business recently boiled down... OpenAI has found a new place to fight Anthropic for developer wallets: OpenRouter, a service AI...

Art by Mike Sullivan

Will Anthropic and OpenAI Stop Selling Their Best AI to Businesses?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 17, 2026 7:01am PDT

Anthropic and OpenAI’s move to develop AI applications and features tailored to specific industries continues to worry their customers, some of which must now compete head-on with their main AI suppliers. Design app Canva is the latest to find itself in this predicament, as we reported earlier this month.Through it all, though, most people... Anthropic and OpenAI’s move to develop AI applications and features tailored to specific...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

Nvidia in Talks to Invest $3 Billion in SB Energy as Part of OpenAI Data Center Deal

By Valida Pau, Ann Davis Vaughan and Phoebe Liu · Aug 15, 2026 12:12pm PDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images

Nvidia in Talks to Invest $3 Billion in SB Energy as Part of OpenAI Data Center Deal

By Valida Pau, Ann Davis Vaughan and Phoebe Liu · Aug 15, 2026 12:12pm PDT

Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the Softbank Group-backed developer of a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, according to people familiar with the discussions. The investment is being discussed as part of Nvidia’s negotiations with OpenAI and SB Energy over the chip giant providing around $100... Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the Softbank Group-backed...

Art by Clark Miller; Getty Images.

Nvidia Close to Deal to Guarantee About $100 Billion in Credit for OpenAI

By Phoebe Liu, Valida Pau and Ann Davis Vaughan · Aug 14, 2026 5:01pm PDT · 1 comment

Nvidia is close to an agreement to provide around $100 billion in credit support for OpenAI to lease a proposed AI data center campus in Ohio that is among the largest projects of its kind, according to four people with knowledge of the talks. The support would help with financing for the first phase of the project buildout, which will last... Nvidia is close to an agreement to provide around $100 billion in credit support for OpenAI to...

OpenAI’s departing and incoming chief revenue officers Denise Dresser and Dali Rajic. Getty Images.

OpenAI’s Latest Hire Burnishes Its Cybersecurity Credentials

By Aaron Holmes and Laura Bratton · Aug 13, 2026 5:15pm PDT

It may be the dog days of summer, but the biggest AI labs are breaking up the monotony with a few executive changes. The latest is OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser. The ChatGPT maker said Thursday she would leave the firm after just eight months on the job. In her place, OpenAI has hired Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief... It may be the dog days of summer, but the biggest AI labs are breaking up the monotony with a few...

Art by Clark Miller.

OpenAI, Anthropic Data Demand Turns Startups’ Slack Threads Into Prized Assets

By Alix Coutures · Aug 13, 2026 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO Maximus Greenwald found an unusual email in his inbox. Mercor, a San Francisco startup that pays contractors to train AI models for labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, was offering to buy or license Warmly’s code base and records of its tasks and... Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO...

Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

SoftBank’s OpenAI-Backed Loan Highlights Risks in Financing Strategy

By Martin Peers · Aug 6, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment

Masayoshi Son, chairman and CEO of SoftBank. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

SoftBank’s OpenAI-Backed Loan Highlights Risks in Financing Strategy

By Martin Peers · Aug 6, 2026 5:00pm PDT · 1 comment

If you’re one of those executives at Alphabet, Meta Platforms or Amazon who deals with investors, here’s an idea: Put a large photo of SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son on the wall of your office. Next time a visiting investor complains about your AI spending, point to the photo. That should end the discussion.As much as big tech firms are spending on... If you’re one of those executives at Alphabet, Meta Platforms or Amazon who deals with investors,...