In December, the company launched the Sora model.[107][108] It also launched OpenAI o1, an early reasoning model that was internally codenamed strawberry.[109] Additionally, ChatGPT Pro—a $200/month subscription service offering unlimited o1 access and enhanced voice features—was introduced, and preliminary benchmark results for the upcoming OpenAI o3 models were shared.[110]
2025
Investments
On January 21, 2025, Donald Trump announced The Stargate Project, a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank and MGX to build an AI infrastructure system in conjunction with the US government. The project takes its name from OpenAI's existing "Stargate" supercomputer project and is estimated to cost $500 billion. The partners plan to fund the project over the next four years.[111]
In March, OpenAI reached a deal with CoreWeave to acquire $350 million worth of CoreWeave shares and access to AI infrastructure, in return for $11.9 billion paid over five years. Microsoft was already CoreWeave's biggest customer in 2024.[112] Alongside their other business dealings, OpenAI and Microsoft were renegotiating the terms of their partnership to facilitate a potential future initial public offering by OpenAI, while ensuring Microsoft's continued access to advanced AI models.[113]
April began as OpenAI raised $40 billion at a $300 billion post-money valuation, marking the largest private technology deal on record. The financing round was led by SoftBank, with other participants including Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive.[114][115]
On April 9, OpenAI countersued Musk in federal court, alleging that he had engaged in "bad-faith tactics" to slow the company's progress and seize its innovations for his personal benefit. OpenAI also argued that Musk had previously supported the creation of a for-profit structure and had expressed interest in controlling OpenAI himself. The countersuit seeks damages and legal measures to prevent further alleged interference.[116]
On May 21, OpenAI announced the $6.5 billion acquisition of io, an AI hardware start-up founded by former Apple designer Jony Ive in 2024.[117][118][119] The deal was the company's largest acquisition to date.[120][121]
In June, OpenAI began renting Google Cloud's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to support ChatGPT and related services, marking its first meaningful use of non‑Nvidia AI chips.[122]
In July, the United States Department of Defense announced that OpenAI had received a $200 million contract for AI in the military, along with Anthropic, Google, and xAI.[123] In the same month, the company made a deal with the UK Government to use ChatGPT and other AI tools in public services.[124][125] OpenAI subsequently began a $50 million fund to support nonprofit and community organizations.[126]
In September, OpenAI agreed to acquire the product testing startup Statsig for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal and appointed Statsig's founding CEO Vijaye Raji as OpenAI's chief technology officer of applications.[127] The company also announced development of an AI-driven hiring service designed to rival LinkedIn.[128]
Products
On January 23, OpenAI released Operator, an AI agent and web automation tool for accessing websites to execute goals defined by users. The feature was only available to Pro users in the United States.[129][130] OpenAI released deep research agent, nine days later. It scored a 27% accuracy on the benchmark Humanity's Last Exam (HLE).[131] Altman later stated GPT-4.5 would be the last model without full chain-of-thought reasoning.[132][133]
In July 2025, reports indicated that artificial intelligence models by both OpenAI and Google DeepMind solved mathematics problems at the level of top-performing students in the International Mathematical Olympiad. OpenAI's large language model was able to achieve gold medal-level performance, reflecting significant progress in AI's reasoning abilities.[134]
Management
Key employees
- CEO and co-founder: Sam Altman, former president of the start-up accelerator Y Combinator
- President and co-founder: Greg Brockman, former CTO, 3rd employee of Stripe[135]
- Chief Scientist Officer: Jakub Pachocki, former Director of Research at OpenAI[91]
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | December 8, 2015[1] |
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| Headquarters | 1455 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.[2] |
Key people | |
| Products | OpenAI Five |
| Revenue |  US$3.7 billion[4] (2024 est.) |
 US$−5 billion[4] (2024 est.) | |
Number of employees | 3,000 (2025)[5] |
| Website | openai |
Aug 21, 2025 — OpenAI reported over $1 billion in monthly revenue for the first time in July 2025, more than doubling since the start of the year 125. The ...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT to hit 700 million weekly users, up 4x from last year
- ChatGPT is set to hit 700 million weekly active users, with usage growing 4X year over year.
- OpenAI now counts five million paying business users, up from three million in June, as enterprises and educators embrace artificial intelligence tools.
- The milestone follows news last week that OpenAI secured $8.3 billion from top investors, including Dragoneer Investment Group, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
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