AI research and deployment company building GPT and o-series models; creator of ChatGPT.
What They Do
OpenAI develops foundation models for text, images, audio, and video (GPT, DALL-E, Whisper, Sora) and exposes them through a platform API used by millions of developers. The company also offers ChatGPT, a consumer product, and enterprise agreements for organisations. Research areas include alignment, interpretability, and scalable reinforcement learning from human feedback.
Mission
Ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
FAQ
OpenAI was co-founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, with backing from Y Combinator, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, and others.
GPT-4o is optimised for fast, balanced multimodal dialogue. The o-series (o1, o3, o4-mini) uses extended chain-of-thought reasoning before responding, making it stronger on complex maths, coding, and science problems at higher latency.
New accounts receive a small credit on sign-up. Ongoing free usage is limited; production workloads require a paid plan billed per token.