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OpenAI

OpenAI builds and deploys large language models and AI agents, sold to consumers via ChatGPT and to enterprises via API and agentic workflow products.

chatgpt.com · San Francisco

CALL NO.CS·CHATGPT·26

StageReported financingno source in ledger[2]

Raisednot publicly disclosedno source in ledger

Headcount6107as of Apr 2026[9]

Valuationnot publicly disclosedno source in ledger

Founded2015[9]

Money

Reported financing.[2]

post-money valuation and the full investor list are not publicly disclosed.

People

Sam Altman, CEO[9][14]

Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder (departed June 2024; now at Safe Superintelligence Inc)[9][14]

Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer (Jan 2025–present); SVP of Research (Sep 2024–present); Head of Frontiers Research (Oct 2018–present)[9][10]

Sarah Friar, CFO[9][10]

Signals

No recent signal with a usable source.

Comps

Anthropic · anthropic.com · Same buyer (enterprise IT and individual consumers), same product category (frontier LLM-powered chat assistant and API), same budget line (AI assistant subscriptions and API access); Anthropic's Claude is named as a direct competitor to ChatGPT in both the...[11]

Google DeepMind · deepmind.google · Same consumer and enterprise buyer, same workflow (general-purpose AI assistant and coding agent), same distribution surface (web app, mobile, API); ChatGPT is explicitly listed as a competitor in the Google DeepMind enrichment data, and news coverage frames...

Sourcestracings · 14

[1]OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI | OpenAI

May 2026 · openai.com

company

[2]OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise | TechCrunch

May 2026 · techcrunch.com

reported

[3]OpenAI's big numbers: $122 billion funding round, 900 million weekly ChatGPT users. | The Verge

May 2026 · theverge.com

reported

[4]OpenAI closes $122B round at $852B valuation, opens door to retail investors

May 2026 · thenextweb.com

reported

[5]OpenAI officially confirms mega-funding round and ChatGPT super app

May 2026 · the-decoder.com

reported

OpenAI builds and deploys large language models and AI agents, sold to consumers via ChatGPT and to enterprises via API and agentic workflow products.

chatgpt.com · San Francisco

StageReported financing

Raisednot publicly disclosed

Headcount6107

Valuationnot publicly disclosed

Founded2015

CompsAnthropic +2

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