OpenAI
9/10Late-stage / scale-up, privately heldPrivate; has received significant investment and a strategic partnership from Microsoft (reported to be multibillion-dollar).San Francisco, California, U.S.
Description
Developer of large language models and AI products (e.g., GPT models, ChatGPT) that offers APIs and enterprise AI services alongside ongoing AI research.
Why in News
OpenAI is the subject of the story because CEO Sam Altman said the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue and pushed back on questions about how it will fund its large spending commitments.
Founders
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman (Elon Musk was an early co-founder/backer)
Published
January 20, 2026
Website
https://openai.comAnalysis
Directly about OpenAI (an AI company) and its CEO; clearly AI-related even if the piece is about revenue rather than product details.