OpenAI
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People
1- Founders
OpenAI is an AI research company founded in 2018 in San Francisco by Elon Musk and Sam Altman, with legal name OpenAI OpCo, LLC, headquartered at 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, and employing approximately 4,500 people; Sam Altman is the CEO.
Ownership & Funding
6- Valuation
The company’s valuation history shows a $157 billion post‑money valuation after a $6.6 billion round in October 2024, a $300 billion valuation after a $40 billion round in March 2025, and a $852 billion valuation after a $122 billion round in early 2026.
- Investors
Key investors include SoftBank Group (lead investor in the $40 billion 2025 round), Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners, Fidelity Investments, Sands Capital, Booking.com, and Cisco Systems, as listed in the company’s incoming investment relationships.
- Financials
Financially, OpenAI reported $3.7 billion revenue in 2024, $13.07 billion revenue in 2025 (more than tripling YoY), and $5.7 billion revenue in Q1 2026; operating losses rose to $20.92 billion in 2025, with total costs and expenses of about $34 billion driven by $19.18 billion R&D and $5.73 billion sales & marketing.
- Financials
At the end of Q1 2026 the company held more than $73 billion in cash and marketable securities, despite a $3.7 billion cash burn in the same quarter.
- IPO
Recent news indicates OpenAI has filed SEC paperwork for a potential IPO in 2026, recruited Noam Shazeer and Dean Ball ahead of the offering, and leaked audited financials showing the 2025 revenue and loss figures.
- Acquisitions
OpenAI agreed to acquire UK‑based AI firm Tomoro, adding roughly 150 engineers and deployment staff to its workforce.
Recent activity
2- Recent
In June 2026 OpenAI launched a new AI consulting business called DeployCo, backed by over $4 billion from TPG, Advent, Bain Capital, and Brookfield, to serve large enterprise customers.
- Recent
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT will be deployed on the Pentagon’s GenAI.mil platform in early July 2026 for sensitive but unclassified work.
Relationship network
Entities connected to OpenAIin Cala's graph — owners, funders, board, competitors. The interviewer probes these.
- Elon Musk
- Sam Altman
- 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, USA
- ChatGPT
- OPENAI OPCO, LLC
- Softbank Group Corp.
- Microsoft Corporation
- Azure
- NVIDIA CORPORATION
- Amazon
- THRIVE CAPITAL PARTNERS LIMITED
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Founders Fund
- Sequoia Capital
- TIGER GLOBAL MANAGEMENT LLC
- Insight Partners
- Fidelity Investments
- SANDS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
- Booking.com
- CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
- Noam Shazeer
- Attention Is All You Need
- Dean Ball
- DeployCo
- TPG Inc.
- Advent International, L.P.
- Bain Capital
- Brookfield Corporation
- U.S. Pentagon
- GenAI.mil
- Tomoro