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Inside OpenAI

From a nonprofit research lab to the company that shipped ChatGPT — a decade of pivots.

Published Mar 28, 20258 min readCompanies

OpenAI(Company) was founded in 2015. Its CEO is Sam Altman(Person).

Structure

A nonprofit parent oversees a capped-profit company. The structure is unusual and is meant to align commercial pressure with a long-term safety mission.

Partnership with Microsoft

Since 2019, Microsoft(Company) has been OpenAI's primary compute and distribution partner.

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