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AI research company that created ChatGPT and other large language models.

Recommended

These creators have recommended this product

Moritz Kremb recommends
"What I recommend for most people getting started is using the OAuth method through your existing ChatGPT subscription. OpenAI has stated that they're okay with it."
Jerry Murdock recommends
"I think for me it's OpenAI because I got 800 million people using it... When you cross a billion, then you're there."

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"For the AI requests in the app, I use OpenAI for the easier tasks and Anthropic for the deeper analysis. That is around 200 bucks a month."
"I can run Goose on an Anthropic model, on an OpenAI model, on an open-source model."
"I just cut and pasted my API key to my open call replicant"
"We use OpenAI for our back-end AI usage for most of it. OpenAI premium for general purpose usage $20 per month."
"The OpenAI coup when Sam was asked to leave was a good example. I had conviction that the founder had been mistreated and we were going to make that right."
Jake Paul uses
"I think you helped launch Sora with OpenAI. Yeah, correct. Yeah, we worked with their team for a couple of months just helping them develop the product."
How I AI uses
"this is going to go off send that off to OpenAI and come back with that"

"extract that content and send it over to OpenAI. When in OpenAI, we should summarize them and extract three to five key takeaways"

"this is going to go off send that off to OpenAI and come back with that"
"We have a whole bunch of Llama and Mistral running and stuff internally and a bunch of OpenAI."
"You need an OpenAI key because OpenAI has a deal with Reddit that gives you that Reddit access."

Sponsored mentions

These creators mentioned this product during a paid promotion

"OpenAI, Cursor, Enthropic, Perplexity, and Verscell all have something in common. They all use WorkOS."
Lenny's Podcast sponsored
"What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replicate, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS."
How I AI sponsored
"OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor are already using WorkOS to move faster and meet enterprise demands."
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"OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Vercel all have something in common. They all use WorkOS."

Also mentioned (94)

Casual references without a clear endorsement

Tom Brown mentioned "OpenAI had already raised a billion dollars" ▶ 0:32
The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway mentioned "Open AI and anthropic are still both privately held companies with giant valuations. Open AI is n..." ▶ 7:56
Ben Horowitz mentioned "And then the second thing that's like nobody wants to do, including OpenAI or Anthropic, is sell ..." ▶ 7:23
Anj Midha mentioned "OpenAI had raised, cuz by then I think OpenAI had raised a billion dollars" ▶ 17:57
Peter Diamandis mentioned "Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in terms of total ARR. That is got to hurt." ▶ 0:15
Chamath Palihapitiya mentioned "In February of 2019, when Daario was still at OpenAI, they did the same thing with GPT-2." ▶ 0:14
All-In Podcast mentioned "they've kicked OpenAI's ass over the last 90 days" ▶ 0:03
Jesse Genet mentioned "OpenAI as well, trying to make all of this a little bit easier for normies." ▶ 25:15
Nick Bilton mentioned "every single day there's this competition between Deep Seek and Gemini and Anthropic and OpenAI" ▶ 1:43:39
20VC with Harry Stebbings mentioned "Like we see like Open AI don't have commissions. It's like here's your salary and then here's you..." ▶ 6:46
Carles Reina mentioned "I love OpenAI, don't get me wrong. They're amazing pushing the boundaries" ▶ 1:23:43
TBPN mentioned "XAI, the AI model company he founded to rival OpenAI" ▶ 6:17
This Week in Startups mentioned "If Zuckerberg were to put his entire energy on copying OpenAI, I would be very nervous" ▶ 0:51
Duncan Trussell mentioned "This is a real challenge for people like OpenAI because they know by making it so you can't make ..." ▶ 15:32
Thomas Laffont mentioned "I think OpenAI is probably the most important company in the world today in the sense that it's t..." ▶ 33:05
Marique Azison mentioned "It would be essentially just able to be replicated by Anthropic or OpenAI with the models that th..." ▶ 12:42
Lenny's Podcast mentioned "Both Anthropic and OpenAI spent the whole of 2025 focusing all of their training efforts on coding" ▶ 0:14
Simon Willison mentioned "both Anthropic and OpenAI realized that code is the application like being a having these things ..." ▶ 3:36
Venture Roundtable mentioned "I think that you know the excitement of open AI also had a lot of you know tumult with it right w..." ▶ 1:25:17
Tristan Harris mentioned "Instead of having the engineers, the human engineers at OpenAI or Anthropic do AI research and fi..." ▶ 5:44
Invest Like The Best mentioned "OpenAI, Cursor, Anthropic, Perplexity, and Verscell all have something in common. They all use wo..." ▶ 20:02
Sergey Levine mentioned "OpenAI has historically done a great job of creating an atmosphere where individual researchers c..." ▶ 1:09:11
Greg Isenberg mentioned "The example I'll use here is, you know, plugins in OpenAI." ▶ 4:40
Bill Gurley mentioned "You can go back to the very first deal, which was Microsoft and OpenAI, and there were credits in..." ▶ 0:19
My First Million mentioned "He's not going out there yelling like I'm going to do a trillion dollar data center like OpenAI. ..." ▶ 0:38
Peter H. Diamandis mentioned "Anthropic being named the most disruptive company eating OpenAI's lunch." ▶ 0:54
Eric Schmidt mentioned "OpenAI is now shifting a bit of its strategy to include the new things it's doing." ▶ 38:35
Jason Calacanis mentioned "Claude's having a great run, OpenAI still doing strong. Grok doing very well. Gemini coming on st..." ▶ 34:44
Sam Parr mentioned "A company like OpenAI is going to pay Surge millions and millions of dollars." ▶ 0:40
Inside Palantir mentioned "Bob McGru, chief, former chief research officer at OpenAI, Bos, the CTO of Meta, and Andrew Wheel..." ▶ 20:32
GaryVee mentioned "Whether it's Claude or OpenAI or Perplex whatever it might be... The day my brother called me abo..." ▶ 22:35
Matt Wong mentioned "In 2018 like Bitcoin and Ethereum were like OpenAI and Anthropic and those are the things to own." ▶ 2:56:17
Gokul Rajaram mentioned "you have of course Daario and and and and the open AI folks but then you have a bunch of other la..." ▶ 1:08:30
Alex Kolicich mentioned "Level three is where we put on top of those is the actual LLM companies. is actually anthropic an..." ▶ 0:29
Jason Lemkin mentioned "Oracle and Open AI end plans to expand flagship data center" ▶ 0:15
Apoorv Agrawal mentioned "what I call like quasi publiclix. You could go public. You just choose to stay private. I would p..." ▶ 1:27:35
Shaan Puri mentioned "When we did OpenAI, it was a hundred billion dollar valuation at the time. It's now close to 800 ..." ▶ 3:35
Alex Finn mentioned "You're never going to see OpenAI announce, oh here's our tool for Korean grocery stores, right?" ▶ 1:21:13
Qasar Younis mentioned "imagine instead of thinking open AI is competing against you know deepseek you say open competing..." ▶ 35:05
Mitchell Green mentioned "People that spin out of like Anthropic or OpenAI and raise money at like $2 billion dollars for a..." ▶ 0:32
Andrew Yang mentioned "The very center, the beating heart of the AI economy was until very recently a nonprofit, OpenAI,..." ▶ 1:35:14
Joe Lonsdale mentioned "That's Anthropic, OpenAI, XAI, you know, Gemini, Meta, the Chinese models" ▶ 7:10
James Beshara mentioned "Open AI. My biggest miss. Sam and I, Sam Altman and I, we were advising and building out YC's YC ..." ▶ 1:59:15
Michael Greenwich mentioned "whether it's OpenAI selling into the enterprise or you know Claude like growing like crazy over t..." ▶ 2:36:11
Tom Bilyeu mentioned "People can vote for Anthropic with their dollars and put OpenAI more at risk because they think t..." ▶ 1:13:45
Eran Zinman mentioned "Another option for doomsday scenario was that some players like you know Anthropic or OpenAI or G..." ▶ 4:04
Codie Sanchez mentioned "From 2012 to 2018, OpenAI found that the compute used in the largest training programs grew by 30..." ▶ 1:55
Lucas Swisser mentioned "a lot of the coding models that have come out of Anthropic, OpenAI and others" ▶ 1:41
Bret Taylor mentioned "You're on the board of OpenAI... our mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefit..." ▶ 1:01
Y Combinator mentioned "A company that succeeds in building this capability could define the next AI foundation model on ..." ▶ 0:33
David George mentioned "If you just add up OpenAI and Anthropic on their on a run rate basis, they added almost half of that" ▶ 36:29
Sebastian Raschka mentioned "A lot of researchers at these companies are so well-motivated, and definitely Anthropic and OpenA..." ▶ 1:26:50

Criticisms (4)

"unsubscribe from OpenAI and you post it to your social media, a screenshot of your unsubscription confirmation from OpenAI"
Rory O'Driscoll criticizes
"the snarky comment about extrapolating from a lemonade stand was just a bad look"
Scott Galloway criticizes
"OpenAI is offering private equity firms guaranteed minimum return of 17.5%. This just seems ridiculous to me. How can you guarantee 17 1/2%?"
"It looks like OpenAI overexposure is now seen as a big negative"