EIN 81-0861541

OpenAI

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
2
Year formed
2015
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
Description
OpenAI's mission is to build safe AGI, and ensure AGI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. They expect AI technologies to be hugely impactful in the short term, but their impact will be outstripped by that of the first AGIs.
Total revenues
$44,485
2022
Total expenses
$1,294,149
2022
Total assets
$18,795,584
2022
Num. employees
2
2022

Program areas at OpenAI

Since its founding, the Organization has undertaken a wide range of charitable initiatives, such as sponsoring a comprehensive basic income study, supporting economic impact research, and experimenting with education-centered programs like OpenAI Scholars. The Organizations efforts also included supporting a number of other public charities focused on technology, economic impact and justice, including the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Index Fund, Black Girls Code, and the ACLU Foundation. More recently, the Organization forged partnerships with Duke University and other research organizations to sponsor additional AI impact studies. For example, the Organization facilitated a comprehensive task-based economic impact framework evaluating the potential economic impacts of large language models. The research found a potentially significant impact of artificial intelligence on the US economy. The research has been integrated into international policy discussions such as that by the OECD and the ILO, in addition to receiving broad coverage in the media. The Organization remains the governing body for all of OpenAI and holds a limited partnership interest in OpenAI LP. Each of the Organizations related organizations is legally bound to pursue the Organizations mission, such as following uncompromised principles of safety and broad benefit in its research and deployment efforts, unencumbered by profit incentives. Through its control of OpenAI, L.P., a capped-profit company formed to help rapidly scale the capital and talent needed to further its mission, and which the Organization governs and oversees all activities through its board, additional research milestones were accomplished in 2022 including the introduction of:1. OpenAI Residency program, which is designed to help bridge the knowledge gap for exceptional researchers and engineers in a variety of academic fields to gain the critical skills and knowledge to transition their careers into the AI & ML space. The Organization piloted this program by hiring, onboarding, and training a group of 14 residents from non-traditional backgrounds and fields of study for six months.2. Research Access Program, which supports researchers using OpenAIs resources to study areas related to the responsible deployment of AI and mitigating associated risks, as well as understanding the societal impact of AI systems. We provide early access to our models and tools to support their work across alignment, fairness & representation, safety evaluation development, model robustness, economic impact and other interdisciplinary research.3. DALLE 2, the second iteration of OpenAIs AI system that generates an original image from a description in natural language. The system was deployed iteratively as a creative tool with safety mitigations in place to prevent misuse. DALLE 2 includes a new technique that reduces bias and improves safety to produce results reflective of the worlds diverse population. Alongside the DALLE 2 deployment, the Organization also launched the OpenAI Artist Access program, which provides artists with subsidized and free access to OpenAIs tools.4. Embeddings, a new endpoint in the OpenAI Application Programming Interface (API) that makes it easy to perform natural language and code tasks like semantic search and classification.5. New and improved content moderation tooling to help developers protect their apps from misuse and detect undesired content using OpenAI classifiers. This safety tool is accessible to all developers free of charge.6. Whisper, an open-source neural net that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.7. ChatGPT, a language model optimized for dialogue. It can answer follow-up questions and admit its mistakes. As a part of our approach to iterative deployment, a version is offered as a chatbot platform free of charges. The Organization actively monitors for misuse of its tools and continuously implements new safety features to ensure responsible use. These contributions to the advancement of AI technology, along with the continuous study on the broader societal impact of AI, are critical steps in moving the Organization towards the development of safe, effective, and productive general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity.

Grants made by OpenAI

GranteeGrant descriptionAmount
Duke UniversityResearch Support$333,333

Who funds OpenAI

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Yc OrgGeneral Support$16,028,500
AmazonSmile FoundationGeneral Support$211

Personnel at OpenAI

NameTitleCompensation
Sam AltmanDirector and President and Chief Executive Officer$0
David LanskyGeneral Counsel$0
Chris ClarkSecretary and Treasurer$50,000
Jonathan LevySecretary$0

Financials for OpenAI

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$1,611
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$42,874
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$0
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$44,485

Form 990s for OpenAI

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-15990View PDF
2021-122022-11-15990View PDF
2020-122021-11-15990View PDF
2019-122021-04-01990View PDF
2018-122020-02-07990View PDF
...and 2 more Form 990s
Data update history
January 19, 2024
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
July 16, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2021
July 5, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 2 new personnel
July 5, 2023
Used new vendors
Identified 2 new vendors, including , and
July 1, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2020
Nonprofit Types
Research centersCharities
Issues
Science and technology
Characteristics
Conducts researchLobbyingTax deductible donations
General information
Address
3180 18th St Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94110
Metro area
San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA
County
San Francisco County, CA
Website URL
openai.com/about/ 
Twitter profile
@openai 
IRS details
EIN
81-0861541
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
2015
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
U40: Engineering and Technology Research, Services
NAICS code, primary
5417: Scientific Research and Development Services
Parent/child status
Independent
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