OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization founded in 2015. It created AI chatbot ChatGPT. Competitors include other AI research organizations such as DeepMind and Google Brain. OpenAI was founded by Sam Altman, former president of startup accelerator Y Combinator, Greg Brockman, former chief technology officer and third employee of Stripe, and Ilya Sutskever, a former Google expert on machine learning. Microsoft has invested more than $11 billion in the company and is a nonvoting board observer. Current board members are Chair Bret Taylor, a former Salesforce co-CEO, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo.
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Universities Fret as Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and DeepMind Lure Their Professors

By Laura Bratton · Jul 9, 2026 7:01am PDT
Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Remaining faculty say the brain drain is threatening the development of open source AI models in the West.So far this year, at least 22 professors and researchers have taken leave or stepped back from their roles at Stanford, ... Renowned university professors and academic researchers keep joining frontier AI labs such as ...
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown. Art by Clark Miller; YouTube.
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OpenAI Researcher Says GPT-5.6 is Better at AI Research Than Most Human Interns

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 8, 2026 7:00am PDT
I’m reporting from Seoul, where thousands of AI researchers from around the world have gathered for this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning. One of the most popular spots at the conference is OpenAI’s booth, which has been consistently encircled by a line of young AI PhDs.They’re waiting for the chance to talk to OpenAI... I’m reporting from Seoul, where thousands of AI researchers from around the world have gathered...
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OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jun 30, 2026 7:06am PDT · 2 comments
We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don’t talk enough about the work these companies are doing to get more juice from the servers they already have.In one previously unreported example, OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out... We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to...
Michael McNamara, CEO of Lancium. Photo by Jeenah Moon/ Getty Images
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Power Developer Behind OpenAI’s Stargate Data Center Is In Talks to Sell Stake

By Valida Pau and Ann Davis Vaughan · Jul 9, 2026 3:00pm PDT
Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas, is in talks with major tech companies to sell a minority stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Blackstone-backed Lancium’s portfolio of gigawatt-scale Texas campuses has drawn interest from several tech companies, including Nvidia,... Lancium, a power infrastructure developer behind OpenAI and Oracle’s data center campus in Texas,...