OpenAI
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015, researching artificial intelligence with the goal of developing "safe and beneficial" artificial general intelligence, which it defines as "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work". As one of the leading organizations of the AI boom, it has developed several large language models, advanced image generation models, and previously, released open-source models. Its release of ChatGPT has been credited with starting the AI boom.
Wikipedia, retrieved 2024-05-20| Country | United States |
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| Sector | Unknown |
| Website | https://openai.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, OpenAI researchers released166 AI research articles
- #70in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 1,326.45citations per AI article on average (#1 in PARAT)
- 85highly cited articles (#29 in PARAT)
- -11%growth in OpenAI's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 56articles at top AI conferences (#38 in PARAT)
- 72.2%of OpenAI's total public research was AI-focused
OpenAI's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 34 | 5353.6 | 26.67 |
| NLP publications | 27 | 461.4 | 35 |
| Robotics publications | 18 | 474.8 | -50 |
| AI safety publications | 20 | 302.4 | 75 |
| Large language model publications | 40 | 1428.5 | 3.15 |
Between 2015 and 2025, OpenAI filed28 AI-related patents
- #202in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- N/Agrowth in OpenAI's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 13AI-related patents were granted to OpenAI (2017–2020)
- 56%of OpenAI's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across OpenAI's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Computer vision patents | 6 | N/A |
| Knowledge representation patents | 5 | N/A |
| Language processing patents | 0 | N/A |
| Speech processing patents | 0 | N/A |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 0 | N/A |
Top use cases across OpenAI's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 17 | N/A |
| Security patents | 1 | N/A |
| Networks patents | 1 | N/A |
| Business patents | 1 | N/A |
| Physical sciences and engineering patents | 0 | N/A |
171
AI jobs
According to our data, OpenAI currently employs about 171 AI workers (#200 rank in PARAT). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
672
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, OpenAI currently employs about 672 Tech Team 1 workers (#311 rank in PARAT).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.