AI Glossary
OpenAI
What is OpenAI?
The AI research company behind the GPT model family, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Founded in 2015 as a non-profit, later restructured to a capped-profit company with Microsoft as a major investor. One of the most influential organisations in modern AI development.
Example in practice
An enterprise team evaluating AI vendors would compare OpenAI's GPT-4 API against Anthropic's Claude API on factors including pricing, context window, reliability, and safety characteristics.