The OpenAI media kit
OpenAI in a few pages, for writers, partners and anyone curious: the facts, the people, the money, the products and the news. Put together by ToolGPA, not by OpenAI.
Media kit
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.
Unofficial. Put together by ToolGPA from OpenAI’s own pages, news reports and our own grades, read Oct 18, 2026. Not made, paid for or approved by OpenAI. toolgpa.com
Part 01 · Company
Who they are, the facts in one place, and the people who run it
2015
The year OpenAI was founded, in San Francisco
In a sentence
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.
In a paragraph
OpenAI was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California. Sam Altman is its CEO; Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever are co-founders. Its last reported valuation was $852 billion, in March 2026.
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Sam Altman
CEO
813 open jobs across the whole company; the largest groups are technical success (69), applied AI engineering (68), sales (41) and marketing (38).
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Part 02 · Funding
Every announced round, who put money in, and what it was last valued at
$852B
Last reported valuation, Mar 31, 2026
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.
Filled: led at least one round. As each announcement names them.
Last valuation
$852 billion
Mar 31, 2026
Post-money valuation that OpenAI announced itself when it closed its $122 billion round on March 31, 2026.
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Part 04 · News
What they have announced lately, and every official channel
813
Open roles on OpenAI's careers page
Only accounts OpenAI’s own site links to. No personal addresses.
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