> **OpenAI** is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the non-profit OpenAI Incorporated and its for-profit subsidiary corporation OpenAI Limited Partnership. OpenAI conducts AI research with the declared intention of promoting and developing a friendly AI. OpenAI systems run on an Azure-based supercomputing platform from [[Microsoft]]. OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Jessica Livingston, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba, with [[Index 📚/Person/Sam Altman]] and [[Index 📚/Person/Elon Musk]] serving as the initial board members. [[Microsoft]] provided OpenAI LP with a $1 billion investment in 2019 and a $10 billion investment in 2023. > > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI)