OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company based in the United States, whose stated mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence, meaning AI systems generally smarter than humans, benefits all of humanity. The organisation frames its work as building safe and beneficial AGI, and considers the mission fulfilled if its efforts help others reach the same outcome.

OpenAI operates as two connected entities: the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, which governs the group, and the for-profit OpenAI Group, which operates as a public benefit corporation. Its research reaches the public through products and developer tools, most visibly the ChatGPT assistant and the API platform that companies and independent developers build on, a model that has made generative AI part of everyday digital product design.