Claim 01 · Organization form
Foundation + PBC group
OpenAI says the nonprofit Foundation governs the for-profit OpenAI Group, which operates as a public benefit corporation.
Foundation-governed PBC groupPROBABLEDeep dive
OpenAI
COMPANY-OPENAI-001 · observed July 29, 2026
An AI research and deployment organization whose nonprofit Foundation governs a for-profit public benefit corporation operating research, model, product and developer-platform activities.
Foundation modelsConsumer AIDeveloper platformAI infrastructure buyer
Evidence boundary
This profile treats OpenAI as a governed organization with products, capital events and infrastructure relationships. It does not treat every partner claim or company announcement as independently verified truth.
Location and contact
Where to find OpenAI.
Official presence
The reviewed official channels do not publish a general corporate phone number or a public street address. The city-level location is shown without inventing a mailing address.
Official channel feature
3:35
This is the new ChatGPT Voice, powered by GPT-Live
OpenAIOFFICIAL CHANNEL FEATURE
Private capital trajectory
Reported valuation observations
Discrete company-disclosed values attached to named financing events. The dashed guide connects observations for readability; it is not a market-price series or an interpolation.
$852B
latest disclosed
3×
verified points
Research thesis
What this company is in the AI economy.
OpenAI is not just a model lab. Its current operating surface connects frontier-model research, ChatGPT distribution, developer APIs, Codex and a rapidly expanding compute and deployment network.
Knowledge-bearing claims
Important assertions stay explainable.
Claim 02 · Declared mission
Beneficial AGI
The mission is a first-party declaration and is preserved as such, not converted into an independently verified outcome.
Claim 03 · Latest disclosed round
$122B committed
OpenAI announced the round at an $852B post-money valuation on March 31, 2026.
Claim 04 · Product surface
ChatGPT · API · Codex
The organization distributes models through consumer, professional and developer-facing products.
Products and operating surfaces
Products are independent entities linked to the company. They are not aliases for the organization itself.
Consumer and work assistant
ChatGPT
A conversational product surface through which OpenAI distributes model capabilities to individuals and organizations.
Developer platform
OpenAI API
A developer platform for integrating OpenAI models and tool-using workflows into software products.
ACTIVE
Software engineering agent
Codex
A coding product surface that applies OpenAI models to long-running software-engineering work.
ACTIVE
Frontier model family
GPT-5.6
A model family released across ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API in Sol, Terra and Luna tiers.
ACTIVE
People
Sam Altman
Chief Executive Officer
Current leadership is supported by first-party OpenAI governance and leadership material.
Open person profile
Photo: TechCrunch / Steve Jennings · CC BY 2.0
Greg Brockman
Co-founder and President
OpenAI identifies Greg Brockman as a co-founder and President in current company material.
Open person profile
Photo: Simulation · CC BY 3.0
Explainable ecosystem
Relationships with a reason.
These are typed, source-backed relationships. Shared categories do not automatically become competitor claims.
4 governed edges
Origin entity
OpenAI
Frontier AI research and deployment
4
edges
4
sources
Governed by
OpenAI Foundation
The nonprofit Foundation governs the for-profit OpenAI Group.
Strategic partnership
Microsoft
The organizations describe an ongoing relationship spanning research, engineering, product development and cloud infrastructure.
Technology partnership
NVIDIA
OpenAI names NVIDIA among its infrastructure and technology partners, including the Stargate program.
Capital participation
SoftBank and institutional participants
The March 2026 funding announcement names SoftBank and a broad group of strategic and institutional participants.
Material change over time
Product·
GPT-5.6 released
The Sol, Terra and Luna model tiers became available across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Funding·
$122B committed capital announced
OpenAI announced its latest capital event and an $852B post-money valuation.
Partnership·
Stargate announced
OpenAI and SoftBank announced an infrastructure company with OpenAI in the operational lead and NVIDIA among the initial technology partners.
Founding·
OpenAI introduced
OpenAI publicly introduced itself as a nonprofit AI research company.
Evidence chain
First-party sources prove attribution: what the organization reports about itself. They do not automatically prove every outcome or interpretation.
Official governance statement · E3
About OpenAI
SRC-OAI-ABOUT · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3 · 2015-12-11
Introducing OpenAI
SRC-OAI-FOUNDING · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3 · 2026-03-31
OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI
SRC-OAI-FUNDING-2026 · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3 · 2025-03-31
New funding to build towards AGI
SRC-OAI-FUNDING-2025 · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3 · 2024-10-02
New funding to scale the benefits of AI
SRC-OAI-FUNDING-2024 · OpenAI
Official product material · E3 · 2026-07-09
GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
SRC-OAI-GPT56 · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3 · 2025-01-21
Announcing The Stargate Project
SRC-OAI-STARGATE · OpenAI and SoftBank
Official company statement · E3 · 2026-02-27
Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft
SRC-OAI-MICROSOFT-2026 · OpenAI and Microsoft
Official leadership record · E3 · 2026-01-09
OpenAI and SoftBank Group partner with SB Energy
SRC-OAI-SB-ENERGY · OpenAI
Official leadership record · E3 · 2024-03-08
Review completed and leadership continues
SRC-OAI-LEADERSHIP · OpenAI
Official company statement · E3
Verifying communications from OpenAI
SRC-OAI-OFFICIAL-PRESENCE · OpenAI Help Center
Official company media · E3
This is the new ChatGPT Voice, powered by GPT-Live
SRC-OAI-YOUTUBE-FEATURE · OpenAI
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