OpenAI is an AI safety and AGI research organization, co-founded in December 2015 as a nonprofit by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman, with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI's Twitter Score is 707 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking it #114 out of 483,944 accounts tracked on this platform. OpenAI ranks #114 (top 0.1%) out of 483,944 tracked accounts on TwitterScore.
OpenAI develops ChatGPT, the GPT model series, DALL-E, Sora, Whisper, and AI APIs. ChatGPT surpassed 900 million weekly active users as of March 2026, including more than 50 million paying subscribers, and the organization generated $13.1 billion in revenue in 2025 and approximately $2 billion per month as of early 2026.
OpenAI restructured from a nonprofit into OpenAI Group PBC, a Public Benefit Corporation, on October 28, 2025, with the OpenAI Foundation retaining a 26% controlling stake. It is backed by Microsoft, which holds a 27% equity stake and has committed to technology access to its models until 2032, along with SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, Andreessen Horowitz, MGX, and TPG. The organization closed a $122 billion funding round at an $852 billion post-money valuation as of March 31, 2026.
OpenAI confidentially filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC around May 22, 2026 for a potential IPO targeting a valuation exceeding $1 trillion, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan leading the process, though no listing timeline has been committed. As operational lead of the Stargate Project, a $500 billion U.S. AI infrastructure joint venture with SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced January 21, 2025, it opened its first data center in Abilene, Texas in September 2025 and has since launched a Stargate for Countries initiative to help democratic nations build sovereign AI infrastructure, with deployments announced in the UAE, Norway, and Argentina.
OpenAI prevailed in a lawsuit filed in February 2024 by Elon Musk alleging the organization had violated its founding nonprofit mission; a jury unanimously dismissed all claims on May 18, 2026, ruling in favor of the organization and its executives. Several original co-founders have since departed: Ilya Sutskever resigned as Chief Scientist in May 2024 and co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc; John Schulman departed in August 2024 to join Anthropic; and Elon Musk left the board in 2018. According to Fortune, as of February 2026, the mission statement had been changed six times in nine years, with the most recent version removing all references to safety. The organization has no official cryptocurrency token; third-party tokens using its name or likeness are not authorized by it.
OpenAI has been active on X since 2015, has 5,119,055 followers as of August 2026, and has published 2,078 posts. It has been mentioned by 4,935 accounts, with 13,368 total mentions tracked on this platform.
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