who made openai

OpenAI was founded in December 2015 by a group of technologists and entrepreneurs including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, and others. The organization was initially established as a nonprofit with the mission to advance artificial intelligence in a way that benefits humanity as a whole. The founders and investors pledged about $1 billion to fund the company at its inception. Sam Altman and Elon Musk served as co-chairs during the early foundation of OpenAI. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.