OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment organization founded in 2015. It operates a hybrid structure with a nonprofit foundation and a public-benefit corporation, and its mission is to create safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is best known for developing groundbreaking AI technologies including the GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) family of language models, the DALL-E series for image generation, and ChatGPT, which helped popularize generative AI globally. Its work spans research, tools, and scalable AI applications used in both research and commercial products.
OpenAI’s core mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. AGI refers to highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work.
According to OpenAI’s Charter, the organization aims to:
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Build safe and beneficial AGI and make sure its benefits are broadly shared.
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Use any influence from AGI deployment to ensure it’s used for the benefit of all and avoid harm or undue concentration of power.
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Support others in achieving AGI safely, even if OpenAI isn’t the one to build it directly.
(Recent reports note that the precise wording of the mission has evolved with filings but the overarching focus remains benefit to humanity and responsible development.)
