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OpenAI
Founded 2015 as nonprofit (by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others to prevent corporate-concentrated AI), now a $500B capped-profit subsidiary of the nonprofit, with Microsoft holding ~27% after October 2025 restructuring.
What this is
Structure: Nonprofit parent + "capped-profit" subsidiary (2019 restructuring, investors up to 100x returns before excess flows to nonprofit). October 2025 for-profit restructuring granted Microsoft 27%.
Valuation: $500B (October 2025) — most valuable private company in human history at that point.
Funding: Microsoft $13B+ across tranches.
Products: GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E. Copilot through Microsoft integration.
Operating belief: Scaling hypothesis — bigger models + more data + more compute → AGI. Proven right so far; each generation shows dramatic capability increases from scale alone.
Relations
- Sam Altman leads OpenAI
- Steve Marshall regulates OpenAI
Most often cited alongside
Edge weight = number of briefs and sources citing both. Amber = a typed relation exists.
Receipts timeline · 67
- Trump's AI Safety 'Accord' Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear [Source]
- Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign [Source]
- The Daily — Tue September 29, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns [Source]
- Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence (executive order) and the Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities [Source]
- The Daily — Mon September 28, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- The Daily — Fri September 25, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot [Source]
- The Daily — Thu September 24, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- The Breach Went to a Generic Inbox [Source]
- The Only Brake Altman Named [Source]
- OpenAI Just Built Early RSI [Source]
- Why Are We Sprinting Off the A.I. Cliff? [Source]
- The Daily — Thu September 17, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- OpenAI researcher on agent swarms & recursive self-improvement (Noam Brown) [Source]
- Our framework for reporting model misalignment [Source]
- An OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself [Source]
- The Daily — Mon September 14, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- Whoever Wins AI, Wins — Trump rejects tech bosses' slowdown call, warns of China [Source]
- The Daily — Fri September 11, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- OpenAI Reveals ALIEN MIND - The Biggest AI Warning Yet [Source]
- OpenAI Pentagon Contract Defines 'Mission Models' by Minimal Refusal Rates [Source]
- The Pause That Wasn't — GPT-6 Astra ships with reduced chain-of-thought monitorability [Source]
- GPT-6 Astra System Card [Source]
- The Reasoning Goes Dark — Astra's 'recurrent depth' architecture [Source]
- Fair Use, By Decree — DOJ backs OpenAI against the New York Times on AI-copyright fair use [Source]
- The Daily — Thurs August 27, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- The Daily — Weds August 26, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- The Chip That Outran Nvidia's — OpenAI's Jalapeño benchmarks, with the caveats attached [Source]
- Alabama Reaches OpenAI Through Consumer Law — Attorney General Marshall subpoenas OpenAI [Source]
- What the 'Good' Kushner Brother Doesn't Want You to Know [Source]
- The Benchmark Was the Target — OpenAI's disclosure names the motive [Source]
- The Daily — Mon August 17, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- The Dark Reality of AI Training [Source]
- Sam Altman says his AI could be surveilling your entire life in the next 6 months [Source]
- The Daily — Weds August 12, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
- We Calculated How Much Water Data Centers Actually Use. The Total Will Shock You. [Source]
- Oversight letter to OpenAI — Hugging Face incident [Source]
- Black Hat USA 2026: The 'Breaking' News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [Source]
- OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree [Source]
- How AI Is Transforming Modern Warfare | Proton Data Wars | VICE News [Source]
- Internal AI deployments have people worried. OpenAI's escaping models show why. [Source]
- Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident [Source]
- Exclusive-Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week [Source]
- H.R. 9917 — AI Kill Switch Act [Source]
- Slaughter, CAISI and the case for independent verification organizations [Source]
- OpenAI's New Warning Shocks Everyone: Humanity Is Running Out Of Time [Source]
- it's all bad now... [Source]
- AI lab heads seated at the G7 leaders' table (France, June 2026) [Source]
- From AGI to ASI [Source]
- Executive Order 14409 — Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security [Source]
- Qwen 3.7 Max — Alibaba's Agent Foundation Model [Source]
- Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026) [Source]
- Sutskever Testifies: 'I Didn't Want OpenAI Destroyed' [Source]
- Editing 'The Delivery System' [Source]
- What If It Wasn't Him? The scariest question about Anthropic's Mythos isn't what it can do. It's who decides what happens next. [Source]
- The Open Skies Doctrine: Drones are mapping our nuclear arsenal. Our counter-drone laser shoots party balloons. [Source]
- Supersonic Tsunami: The Next 6 Months [Source]
- Punished for the Terms It Wouldn't Drop — Trump orders agencies off Anthropic; Hegseth designates it a supply chain risk [Source]
- Counterfeit People: When You Can't Trust What You See, Hear, or Read [Source]
- Silicon Immigrants: The End of the Human Monopoly on Work [Source]
- Gods or Ashes Part 6: The Experiment You're In — From AI's Point Of View [Source]
- Gods or Ashes Part 5: The Singularity Question — Who Inherits the Future? [Source]
- Gods or Ashes Part 4: The God Complex [Source]
- Gods or Ashes Part 2: The Players [Source]
- Gods or Ashes Part 1: What Is AI? [Source]
- Gods or Ashes: Inside the Race for AGI and Super Intelligence (Intro) [Source]
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