OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded by entrepreneurs Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Trevor Blackwell, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, Vicki Cheung, Jessica Livingston, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Andrej Karpathy, and other backers.

The name “Open” reflects the company's initial commitment to openness and transparency, with a promise to freely share research and patents with the broader AI community and ensure that its work would be open-source. Its main focus areas are deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, game theory, economics, neuroscience-inspired algorithms, and more. Established as a nonprofit organization, OpenAI transitioned to a "capped-profit" entity, OpenAI LP, in March 2019. This change allowed investors to earn returns of up to 100 times their initial investment, with any profits exceeding that amount directed toward funding OpenAI’s mission. This controversial shift raised skepticism about th…