How much funding has OpenAI raised?

OpenAI has raised $17.9B in total funding. The company is valued at $300B.

How many employees does OpenAI have?

OpenAI has approximately 3,400 employees, with +85% YoY growth.

Who is the CEO of OpenAI?

Sam Altman leads OpenAI as CEO.

OpenAI — AI Company Profile | Funding, Products & Team

OpenAI

LATE STAGE +85% YoY

Creator of ChatGPT and the GPT model family. The most widely-used AI platform with over 200M weekly active users.

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Employees

~3.4K

Total Funding

$17.9B

Latest Valuation

$300B

Leadership

Sam Altman

CEO

Key Products

ChatGPTGPT-4oo3DALL-E 3SoraCodex

Focus Areas

Language modelsMultimodal AIReasoningCode generationImage generationVideo generation

Funding History

Oct 2025Series Unknown$6.6B@ $157B

Mar 2025Convertible Note$40B@ $300B

Models by OpenAI

GPT-4o

Quality: 85·$6.25/1M·General purpose

GPT-4o Mini

Quality: 72·$0.38/1M·High throughput

o3 Mini

Quality: 88·$2.75/1M·Reasoning & math

Quality: 96·$25.00/1M·Hard reasoning

GPT-4.1

Quality: 89·$5.00/1M·Long context

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About OpenAI

OpenAI was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Led by Sam Altman, the company has grown to approximately 3,400 employees with +85% YoY growth.

The company has raised $17.9B in funding, reaching a valuation of $300B. Key products include ChatGPT, GPT-4o, o3, DALL-E 3, Sora, Codex.

OpenAI focuses on: Language models, Multimodal AI, Reasoning, Code generation, Image generation, Video generation.

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