OpenAI
Artificial intelligence · United States
OpenAI builds frontier AI models and sells them through ChatGPT subscriptions, business plans and a developer API, under the control of a nonprofit foundation.
What makes it different
A nonprofit foundation controls the company.
26%Foundation stake in the companyOct 2025
The OpenAI Foundation appoints every director of OpenAI Group PBC and holds a quarter of its equity.
How big it is
How big is OpenAI?
1BChatGPT weekly users2026
50M+Consumer subscribers2026
9M+Paying business users2026
How the business works
Models to products to revenue.
- 1Frontier AI models
- 2ChatGPT and API
- 3Compute and talent
A nonprofit foundation controls the for-profit company that sells the models.
Brands and businesses
More than OpenAI.
Who owns it
- Current and former employees and investors47%
- Microsoft27%
- OpenAI Foundation26%
CEO: Sam Altman
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 2-11OpenAI launches as a nonprofit lab
- 3-11Capped-profit OpenAI LP created
- 1-30ChatGPT released as a research preview
- 1-23Microsoft extends its partnership
- 3-14GPT-4 released
Sources
Every number on this page comes from OpenAI's own reports.
Full profile
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What OpenAI tracks12 metrics
ChatGPT weekly users
Consumer subscribers
Codex weekly users
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
The full timeline16 moments
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