OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial-intelligence research and deployment company. It develops general-purpose models and products that can work with text, images, audio, video and software code. Its services are used by individuals, developers, businesses, educational organisations and other institutions. OpenAI states that its mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

The company’s products include ChatGPT and an application programming interface through which developers can add OpenAI models to their own software. Its model families support language generation, reasoning, image creation, speech processing and multimodal tasks. Business offerings add administrative, privacy and security controls for organisational use. OpenAI also conducts safety research, evaluations and work on model alignment, while publishing selected research and technical information. Its technology is delivered through consumer subscriptions, enterprise products and usage-based developer services.

OpenAI was founded in San Francisco in 2015 by a group that included Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, John Schulman and Wojciech Zaremba. It began as a nonprofit research organisation. A capped-profit operating structure was introduced in 2019 to support the capital and computing requirements of advanced AI development. OpenAI released early GPT research models before launching ChatGPT publicly in November 2022, bringing generative AI to a much wider audience.

OpenAI’s published business address is 1455 Third Street, San Francisco, California 94158, United States. The company does not publish a general customer-support telephone number. Users and customers are directed to the OpenAI Help Center, account support tools and sales contact forms for assistance.

For the most current product, office and support information, visitors should use the official OpenAI website, because regional availability and contact routes can change. Corporate services and product availability can differ by market.