OpenAI
9/10Private, scale-stage / mature AI companyPrivate; has received multiple funding rounds and large strategic investments (notably multibillion-dollar investments/partnerships with Microsoft); company remains privately held.San Francisco, California, USA
Description
AI research and deployment company and maker of ChatGPT and the GPT family of large language models; provides APIs and enterprise AI services.
Why in News
OpenAI signed a deal to buy $38 billion in cloud computing services from Amazon (AWS) over seven years to scale its AI infrastructure and agentic workloads.
Founders
Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman (early backer/co‑founder Elon Musk was also an initial co‑founder and later stepped away)
Published
January 20, 2026
Website
https://openai.comAnalysis
Directly about OpenAI, a major AI company (startup-origin); clearly AI-related and relevant to AI company operations.