OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, and Wojciech Zaremba. The company has not publicly endorsed plans to participate in an IPO. These comments should not be interpreted to mean that the company is formally pursuing or foregoing an IPO.

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research company working to develop AI that will have long-lasting positive impact on humans. The company offers a variety of products and services, the most well-known being its natural language chatbots. The company has raised more than $1 billion in venture capital funding from investors including Tiger Global, Sequoia, Bedrock Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz. OpenAI was last valued at $20 billion.

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