OpenAI | News, Hiring, Layoffs, Competitors, CEO, Fundraising Insights
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of...
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company focuses on creating safe and beneficial AGI, prioritizing safety and human needs over profit. OpenAI values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and believes in the potential of AI to address significant global challenges.
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Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Size
201-500 employees
Industry
Research Services
Specialities
artificial intelligence and machine learning
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🛍️ OpenAI Product and Pricing News
- OpenAI launched Canvas, a new feature for drafting, editing, and getting feedback on writing and code, available on web and ChatGPT desktop app for Windows.
- OpenAI launched the Responses API and an open-source Agents SDK to simplify agent application development and multi-agent workflows.
- OpenAI has released new developer tools, including a Responses API and an open-source Agents SDK, to simplify the creation of AI agents that perform complex tasks autonomously.
- OpenAI and Elon Musk have agreed to fast-track a trial over OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model, with the trial set for autumn.
- OpenAI's o1 and o3-mini models now support Python-powered data analysis in ChatGPT, enabling tasks like running regressions and visualizing business metrics.
- OpenAI publicly released its new Agents SDK, which simplifies AI orchestration and workflow automation, allowing users to transform ideas into reality with ease.
- The UK's Competition and Markets Authority closed its investigation into Microsoft's $13 billion investment in OpenAI, concluding that Microsoft has influence but not control over OpenAI.
- OpenAI's SORA is now available in Italy as of March 1.
👔 OpenAI CEO, Management and Leadership Team
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⚔️ OpenAI Alternatives and Competitors
- Azure AI |
- AWS Cloud AI Developer Services |
- Google Vision AI |
- H2O AI Cloud |
- ModelArts |
- Oracle Artificial Intelligence |
- IBM Cloud AI Developer Services |
- Synthesia |
- Sakana AI |
- Respeecher |
- 01.AI |
- Rhino.ai |
- Contextual AI |
- Anthropic |
- Allganize |
- MYTH |
- eRoun & Company |
- xAI |
- Google DeepMind |
- Microsoft AI |
- Watsonx AI |
- Mistral AI |
- Cohere |
- Facebook LLaMA |
- Stanford Alpaca
💼 OpenAI Hiring and Layoffs
- Aravind Kalaiah has left OpenAI as a Member of Technical Staff to become Co-Founder and CEO at a Stealth Startup in the United States.
- Ebele Okobi has left OpenAI as a Senior Policy Advisor in the United Kingdom to join Dr. Martens plc as Chief of Staff to the CEO.
- Mark Chen has joined OpenAI as Chief Research Officer in the United States, previously serving in a similar role at another company.
- OpenAI appointed Nigerian billionaire Adebayo Ogunlesi to its Board of Directors to enhance its global strategy and governance.
- Kate Rouch has joined OpenAI as Chief Marketing Officer in the United States, previously serving as Chief Marketing Officer at Coinbase.
- Colleen Coulter has joined OpenAI as an Enterprise Account Director, previously serving as SVP, Customer Success and Experience at Route in the United States.
- Liam Fedus, OpenAI's VP of research for post-training, is leaving to start a materials science AI company, with OpenAI planning to invest in and partner with his new venture.
- Mark Murray has joined OpenAI as Editorial Director, previously serving as Senior Political Editor at NBC News in the United States.
🤖 OpenAI Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Capco has partnered with OpenAI to enhance AI solutions for financial institutions by integrating OpenAI's models like ChatGPT and GPT-4.5 into their services.
- The University of Michigan has partnered with OpenAI to enhance AI resources, research funding, and computing power on campus.
- OpenAI and the University of Oxford have launched a five-year collaboration to enhance research and education with AI tools and research grants, including a project to digitize the Bodleian Libraries' collections.
- LexisNexis and OpenAI have partnered to integrate OpenAI's APIs into LexisNexis products and fine-tune AI models for legal applications.
- OpenAI partnered with nine U.S. Department of Energy national labs for the 1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session to explore AI's role in scientific discovery.
- Chip Ganassi Racing has partnered with OpenAI in a strategic research collaboration, marking OpenAI's first venture into motorsports.
- BNY has signed a multi-year deal with OpenAI to enhance its GenAI platform Eliza using OpenAI's technology, including API and ChatGPT Enterprise, to improve AI-powered solutions across its operations.
- OpenAI's language models, including GPT-4o, are now available in Snowflake's Cortex AI development environment through an expanded partnership with Microsoft.
📈 OpenAI Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- OpenAI has secured a $12 billion deal with CoreWeave to enhance its cloud computing capabilities, acquiring a $350 million equity stake in CoreWeave at its IPO.
- OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, is part of a $500 billion joint venture called the Stargate Project to enhance AI infrastructure in the US.
- In 2024, NVIDIA invested in OpenAI as part of its $1 billion funding across 50 AI startups and acquisitions.
- Andrej Karpathy, a former research scientist at OpenAI, invested in Perplexity AI's $63 million Series B funding round in April 2024, alongside Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, and Stanley Druckenmiller.
- OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated that $11 billion in revenue is possible this year as the company considers a SoftBank investment.
- OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced on January 6, 2025, that the company is losing money on OpenAI Pro subscriptions because users are using ChatGPT more than expected.
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