OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company working on frontier AI, AGI and AI safety, and building ChatGPT and an API platform for individuals, businesses and developers.
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company whose stated mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Its work covers research on frontier AI, work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) and AI safety, and the deployment of AI systems through products and services aimed at individuals, businesses and developers. The company operates across artificial intelligence, technology, developer tools, enterprise and business applications, and consumer AI.
The organisation is structured around a dual governance model. A nonprofit body, the OpenAI Foundation, sits alongside the for-profit OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation that the Foundation governs. The mission is described as the guide for research, product development and the company's approach to deploying AI, and the company holds that helping others achieve safe and beneficial AI also serves that mission.
OpenAI's commercial work runs through two principal products. ChatGPT is an AI product built for individuals, businesses and developers. The API platform provides developers and businesses with access to OpenAI's models and tools. Together these cover research, product development, business applications and developer tooling.
