The company behind ChatGPT
OpenAI
ChatGPT is made by OpenAI, an AI research and product company whose for-profit arm, OpenAI Group PBC, is controlled by the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation. It earns money from ChatGPT subscriptions and business plans, from developers paying for its API, and from an ads pilot it started in 2026.
chatgpt.comRead on Oct 18, 2026 from the company’s own pages and from news reports.
ChatGPT at a glance
- Chief executive
- Sam Altman
- Founded
- 2015
- Based in
- San Francisco, California
- Last valuation
- $852 billion
- Reported Mar 31, 2026
- Latest round
- Funding round, $122 billion
- Mar 31, 2026
- Ownership
- Owned by a nonprofit
ChatGPT's CEO and founders
The people OpenAI names itself, or a news report about it names, with the job given there. Their accounts are the ones its own pages link to.
ChatGPT funding
Closed a round of $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31, 2026, co-led by SoftBank, according to its own announcement. It announced $40 billion in March 2025 and $6.6 billion in October 2024, and Microsoft invested $1 billion in 2019 and more in 2021 and 2023. No overall total is stated. openai.comopenai.comopenai.comopenai.com
| When | Round | Amount | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2026 | Funding round | $122 billion | Led by SoftBank, a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.. With Amazon, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Altimeter, Appaloosa LP, ARK Invest, affiliated funds of BlackRock, Blackstone, Coatue, D1 Capital Partners, Dragoneer, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Goanna Capital, Insight Partners, The Paragon Group, Sands Capital, Sequoia Capital, Sound Ventures, Temasek, Thrive Capital. openai.com |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Funding round | $40 billion | With SoftBank Group. openai.com |
| Oct 2, 2024 | Funding round | $6.6 billion | Not named. openai.com |
| Jan 23, 2023 | Strategic investment | Not stated | Led by Microsoft. openai.com |
| Jul 22, 2019 | Strategic investment | $1 billion | Led by Microsoft. openai.com |
| Dec 11, 2015 | Donation pledges | $1 billion | With Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, YC Research. openai.com |
Every investor named
- Microsoft · led 2 rounds
- a16z · led a round
- accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. · led a round
- D. E. Shaw Ventures · led a round
- MGX · led a round
- SoftBank · led a round
- TPG · led a round
- affiliated funds of BlackRock
- Altimeter
- Amazon
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Appaloosa LP
- ARK Invest
- Blackstone
- Coatue
- D1 Capital Partners
- Dragoneer
- Elon Musk
- Fidelity Management & Research Company
- Goanna Capital
- Greg Brockman
- Infosys
- Insight Partners
- Jessica Livingston
- NVIDIA
- Peter Thiel
- Reid Hoffman
- Sam Altman
- Sands Capital
- Sequoia Capital
- SoftBank Group
- Sound Ventures
- Temasek
- The Paragon Group
- Thrive Capital
- YC Research
ChatGPT valuation
$852 billion
Mar 31, 2026
Post-money valuation that OpenAI announced itself when it closed its $122 billion round on March 31, 2026. openai.com
A private company’s valuation is set when it raises money and is rarely updated in public. It is not a share price.
Company details
- Ownership
- Owned by a nonprofit. OpenAI Group PBC is a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, which held 26% of it after the October 2025 recapitalization; Microsoft held about 27% and employees and investors the other 47%, per its structure page. openai.com
- Founded
- 2015 openai.com
- Based in
- San Francisco, California openai.com
- Hiring
- 813 open jobs across the whole company; the largest groups are technical success (69), applied AI engineering (68), sales (41) and marketing (38) openai.com
- Partner program
- The OpenAI Partner Network is for consultancies and integrators that build, co-sell and deliver solutions on OpenAI's models; companies apply through a partner portal. No payment terms are published. openai.com
ChatGPT on social media and the web
- X (Twitter)x.com/OpenAI
- LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/openai
- YouTubeyoutube.com/OpenAI
- Instagraminstagram.com/openai
- TikToktiktok.com/@openai
- Discorddiscord.gg/openai
- GitHubgithub.com/openai
- Blog · openai.com
- Changelog · openai.com
- Community · community.openai.com
- Podcast · openai.com
- Status page · status.openai.com
- Careers · openai.com
Only accounts OpenAI links to from its own site, so you know they are its own.
How to contact OpenAI
The ways OpenAI publishes for reaching it. We don’t list personal email addresses, guessed or otherwise.
ChatGPT news and launches
- Oct 15, 2026GPT-Live-1.1 and new voices in ChatGPT
- Oct 15, 2026Applications for the Rosalind Academic Plan
- Oct 15, 2026Site limits for Plus and Pro
- Oct 15, 2026ChatGPT Sites updates for Enterprise
Media kit
The OpenAI media kit
Everything on this page as a designed PDF to keep or pass on: the facts, the people, the funding with a chart of every round, the products with their grades and pictures, the news and every official channel. Put together by ToolGPA, not by OpenAI.
Questions about ChatGPT the company
Who is the CEO of ChatGPT?
Sam Altman is OpenAI's CEO, according to openai.com, as read on Oct 18, 2026.
Who founded ChatGPT?
Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever are named as founders of OpenAI, which was founded in 2015.
How much funding has ChatGPT raised?
Closed a round of $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation on March 31, 2026, co-led by SoftBank, according to its own announcement. It announced $40 billion in March 2025 and $6.6 billion in October 2024, and Microsoft invested $1 billion in 2019 and more in 2021 and 2023. No overall total is stated.
Who are ChatGPT's investors?
The announcements name Microsoft, a16z, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, SoftBank, TPG, affiliated funds of BlackRock, Altimeter, Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Appaloosa LP, and 24 more. Microsoft, a16z, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, SoftBank and TPG led rounds.
When did ChatGPT last raise money?
The most recent round announced was in Mar 31, 2026: Funding round, $122 billion, led by SoftBank, a16z, D. E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc..
What is ChatGPT's valuation?
$852 billion, as of Mar 31, 2026. Post-money valuation that OpenAI announced itself when it closed its $122 billion round on March 31, 2026.
Who owns ChatGPT?
OpenAI Group PBC is a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, which held 26% of it after the October 2025 recapitalization; Microsoft held about 27% and employees and investors the other 47%, per its structure page.
Where is ChatGPT based?
OpenAI gives its base as San Francisco, California.
Is ChatGPT hiring?
813 open jobs across the whole company; the largest groups are technical success (69), applied AI engineering (68), sales (41) and marketing (38).
Is ChatGPT on social media?
OpenAI links to its own accounts on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Discord and GitHub. The links are on this page, taken from OpenAI's own site.
Where this comes from
Read on Oct 18, 2026. Facts come from OpenAI’s own pages, news reports and investors’ own announcements; nothing from paid data sites. What no page states is left out. If something here is out of date, the company can send a correction through the vendor page.