OpenAI

TagLast edit: 22 Jul 2022 14:34 UTC by Leo

OpenAI is an AI safety research and deployment company based in San Francisco.

Funding

In March 2017 OpenAI received a grant of $30 million from Open Philanthropy.^[1]

External links

OpenAI. Official website.

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Related entries

AI safety | Anthropic

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Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Open AI, Open Philanthropy.

[Question] Why aren’t you freaking out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC

80 points

22 comments2 min readEA link

Helen Toner (ex-OpenAI board member): “We learned about ChatGPT on Twitter.”

defun 🔸29 May 2024 7:40 UTC

123 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

[Linkpost] Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI’s use of the “Sky” voice, that was shockingly similar to her own voice.

Linch20 May 2024 23:50 UTC

46 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(variety.com)

OpenAI introduces function calling for GPT-4

mic20 Jun 2023 1:58 UTC

26 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(openai.com)

[Question] Would an Anthropic/OpenAI merger be good for AI safety?

M22 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Sam Altman returning as OpenAI CEO “in principle”

Fermi–Dirac Distribution22 Nov 2023 6:15 UTC

55 points

37 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI’s new structure

AnonymousTurtle27 Dec 2024 14:53 UTC

30 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Is effective altruism really to blame for the OpenAI debacle?

Garrison23 Nov 2023 0:44 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

New Business Wars podcast season on Sam Altman and OpenAI

Eevee🔹2 Apr 2024 6:22 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(wondery.com)

Comments on OpenAI’s “Planning for AGI and beyond”

So8res3 Mar 2023 23:01 UTC

115 points

7 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] How independent is the research coming out of OpenAI’s preparedness team?

Earthling10 Feb 2024 16:59 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

#209 – OpenAI’s gambit to ditch its nonprofit (Rose Chan Loui on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours27 Nov 2024 20:43 UTC

22 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

 Jan Leike: “I’m excited to join @AnthropicAI to continue the superalignment mission!”

defun 🔸28 May 2024 18:08 UTC

35 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

Articles about recent OpenAI departures

bruce17 May 2024 17:38 UTC

126 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Common misconceptions about OpenAI

Jacob_Hilton25 Aug 2022 14:08 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

CoreWeave Is A Time Bomb

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 3:52 UTC

10 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

Evolving OpenAI’s Structure

Tyner🔸6 May 2025 0:52 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

GPT-4 is out: thread (& links)

Lizka14 Mar 2023 20:02 UTC

84 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC

286 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

[Linkpost] OpenAI is awarding ten 100k grants for building prototypes of a democratic process for steering AI

pseudonym26 May 2023 12:49 UTC

36 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

[Question] How committed to AGI safety are the current OpenAI nonprofit board members?

Eevee🔹2 Dec 2024 4:03 UTC

14 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Misnaming and Other Issues with OpenAI’s “Human Level” Superintelligence Hierarchy

Davidmanheim15 Jul 2024 5:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

OpenAI’s grant program for democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow

Ronen Bar23 Jun 2023 10:46 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Call for Attorneys for OpenAI Employees and Ex-Employees

Vilfredo's Ghost18 May 2024 5:27 UTC

181 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

What’s Going on With OpenAI’s Messaging?

Ozzie Gooen21 May 2024 2:22 UTC

218 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC

176 points

18 comments73 min readEA link

OpenAI board received letter warning of powerful AI

JordanStone23 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC

26 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.reuters.com)

Worrisome Trends for Digital Mind Evaluations

Derek Shiller20 Feb 2025 15:35 UTC

79 points

10 comments8 min readEA link

Episode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

Austin25 May 2024 16:15 UTC

21 points

2 comments44 min readEA link

(manifund.substack.com)

80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

264 points

79 comments3 min readEA link

Ilya Sutskever has officially left OpenAI

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸15 May 2024 0:00 UTC

37 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

(twitter.com)

OpenAI o1

Zach Stein-Perlman12 Sep 2024 18:54 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI’s Superalignment team has opened Fast Grants

Yadav16 Dec 2023 15:41 UTC

31 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Sam Altman fired from OpenAI

Larks17 Nov 2023 21:07 UTC

134 points

89 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

We are fighting a shared battle (a call for a different approach to AI Strategy)

GideonF16 Mar 2023 14:37 UTC

59 points

10 comments15 min readEA link

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

NYT: Google will ‘recalibrate’ the risk of releasing AI due to competition with OpenAI

Michael Huang22 Jan 2023 2:13 UTC

173 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

Sam Altman / Open AI Discussion Thread

John Salter20 Nov 2023 9:21 UTC

40 points

35 comments1 min readEA link

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella says he doesn’t believe in AGI

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸12 Nov 2025 23:03 UTC

12 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC

155 points

16 comments68 min readEA link

The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 0:11 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semafor.com)

Map of all 40 copyright suits v. AI in U.S.

Remmelt26 Mar 2025 7:57 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(chatgptiseatingtheworld.com)

On AI and Compute

johncrox3 Apr 2019 21:26 UTC

39 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

AI and integrity

Nathan Young29 May 2024 20:45 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(nathanpmyoung.substack.com)

Cancelling GPT subscription

adekcz20 May 2024 16:19 UTC

26 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What happened to the OpenPhil OpenAI board seat?

ChristianKleineidam15 Mar 2023 20:09 UTC

52 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

A tale of two Sams

Geoffrey Miller21 May 2024 19:22 UTC

37 points

24 comments2 min readEA link

Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding

Jonathan Yan22 Nov 2023 1:01 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

GPT-5 is out

david_reinstein7 Aug 2025 20:37 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

Frontier Model Forum

Zach Stein-Perlman26 Jul 2023 14:30 UTC

40 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

(blog.google)

[Linkpost] OpenAI leaders call for regulation of “superintelligence” to reduce existential risk.

Lowe Lundin25 May 2023 14:14 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Three Weeks In: What GPT-5 Still Gets Wrong

JAM27 Aug 2025 14:43 UTC

2 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

o3

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Dec 2024 21:00 UTC

84 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

The End of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Era

Garrison29 Oct 2025 16:28 UTC

32 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

(www.obsolete.pub)

AI Safety Newsletter #42: Newsom Vetoes SB 1047 Plus, OpenAI’s o1, and AI Governance Summary

Center for AI Safety1 Oct 2024 20:33 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #54: OpenAI Updates Restructure Plan

Center for AI Safety13 May 2025 16:48 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Sam Altman and the Crossroads of AI Power: Can We Trust the Future We’re Building?

Kayode Adekoya23 May 2025 15:39 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #60: The AI Action Plan

Center for AI Safety31 Jul 2025 18:10 UTC

6 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

[Link] “Why Responsible AI Development Needs Cooperation on Safety” (OpenAI)

Milan Griffes12 Jul 2019 1:19 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

I’m Cullen O’Keefe, a Policy Researcher at OpenAI, AMA

Cullen 🔸11 Jan 2020 4:13 UTC

45 points

68 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI: The nonprofit refuses to die (with Tyler Whitmer)

80000_Hours11 Nov 2025 21:55 UTC

19 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Thoughts on AGI organizations and capabilities work

RobBensinger7 Dec 2022 19:46 UTC

77 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Hiring engineers and researchers to help align GPT-3

Paul_Christiano1 Oct 2020 18:52 UTC

107 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

Microsoft Plans to Invest $10B in OpenAI; $3B Invested to Date | Fortune

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆10 Jan 2023 23:43 UTC

25 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(fortune.com)

o3 is not being released to the public. First they are only giving access to external safety testers. You can apply to get early access to do safety testing

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️20 Dec 2024 18:30 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

OpenAI is starting a new “Superintelligence alignment” team and they’re hiring

alejandro5 Jul 2023 18:27 UTC

100 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

AISN #50: AI Action Plan Responses

Center for AI Safety31 Mar 2025 20:07 UTC

10 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

Why Stop AI is barricading OpenAI

Remmelt14 Oct 2024 7:12 UTC

−13 points

28 comments6 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Four Predictions About OpenAI’s Plans To Retain Nonprofit Control

Garrison7 May 2025 15:48 UTC

15 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

(www.obsolete.pub)

List of petitions against OpenAI’s for-profit move

Remmelt25 Apr 2025 10:03 UTC

13 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Newsletter #37: US Launches Antitrust Investigations Plus, recent criticisms of OpenAI and Anthropic, and a summary of Situational Awareness

Center for AI Safety18 Jun 2024 18:08 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

ChatGPT bug leaked users’ conversation histories

Ian Turner27 Mar 2023 0:17 UTC

15 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

Beware of the new scaling paradigm

JohanEA19 Sep 2024 17:03 UTC

9 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

The OpenAI Foundation has announced its first round of grants

Larks4 Dec 2025 4:34 UTC

19 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

(openai.com)

[Question] Will OpenAI’s o3 reduce NVidia’s moat?

Ebenezer Dukakis3 Jan 2025 2:21 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

How much do markets value Open AI?

Ben_West🔸14 May 2023 19:28 UTC

39 points

14 comments4 min readEA link

Fifteen Lawsuits against OpenAI

Remmelt9 Mar 2024 12:22 UTC

55 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Why doesn’t EA denounce OpenAI?

Leo_29 Nov 2025 20:50 UTC

2 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Reinforcement Learning: A Non-Technical Primer on o1 and DeepSeek-R1

AlexChalk9 Feb 2025 23:58 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(alexchalk.net)

Research Summary: Forecasting with Large Language Models

Damien Laird2 Apr 2023 10:52 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(damienlaird.substack.com)

Emergency pod: Did OpenAI give up, or is this just a new trap? (with Rose Chan Loui)

80000_Hours9 May 2025 15:10 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

What OpenAI Told California’s Attorney General

Garrison17 May 2025 23:14 UTC

35 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(www.obsolete.pub)

AI safety advocates should consider providing gentle pushback following the events at OpenAI

I_machinegun_Kelly22 Dec 2023 21:05 UTC

86 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Any response from OpenAI (or EA in general) about the Technology Review feature on OpenAI?

qjtva21 Feb 2020 9:12 UTC

5 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

AISN #61: OpenAI Releases GPT-5

Center for AI Safety12 Aug 2025 17:52 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

AISN #53: An Open Letter Attempts to Block OpenAI Restructuring

Center for AI Safety29 Apr 2025 15:56 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

OpenAI Alums, Nobel Laureates Urge Regulators to Save Company’s Nonprofit Structure

Garrison23 Apr 2025 23:01 UTC

61 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Re: Anthropic Chinese Cyber-Attack. How Do We Protect Open-source Models?

Mayowa Osibodu3 Jan 2026 22:14 UTC

16 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall? Evaluating Ilya Sutskever’s Recent Claims

Garrison13 Nov 2024 17:00 UTC

121 points

8 comments8 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The OpenAI Governance Transition: The History, What It Is, and What It Means

Charlie G 🔹17 Nov 2025 21:08 UTC

3 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(charliegarfield.substack.com)

OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

Will Howard🔹9 Mar 2024 11:27 UTC

47 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

(openai.com)

AISN #65: Measuring Automation and Superintelligence Moratorium Letter

Center for AI Safety29 Oct 2025 16:08 UTC

8 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(newsletter.safe.ai)

I read every major AI lab’s safety plan so you don’t have to

sarahhw16 Dec 2024 14:12 UTC

68 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

(longerramblings.substack.com)

AXRP Episode 24 - Superalignment with Jan Leike

DanielFilan27 Jul 2023 4:56 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(axrp.net)

The Slippery Slope from DALLE-2 to Deepfake Anarchy

stecas5 Nov 2022 14:47 UTC

55 points

11 comments17 min readEA link

Emergency pod: Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (with Tyler Whitmer)

80000_Hours15 May 2025 16:52 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Miles Brundage resigned from OpenAI, and his AGI readiness team was disbanded

Garrison23 Oct 2024 23:42 UTC

57 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Scalable And Transferable Black-Box Jailbreaks For Language Models Via Persona Modulation

sjp7 Nov 2023 18:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️2 Apr 2025 5:41 UTC

11 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

A breakdown of OpenAI’s revenue

dschwarz10 Jul 2024 18:07 UTC

58 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Emergency pod: Elon tries to crash OpenAI’s party (with Rose Chan Loui)

80000_Hours14 Feb 2025 16:29 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Inside OpenAI’s Controversial Plan to Abandon its Nonprofit Roots

Garrison18 Apr 2025 18:46 UTC

17 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

OpenAI and Anthropic Donate Credits for AI Forecasting Benchmark Tournament

christian17 Jul 2024 21:50 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Publication decisions for large language models, and their impacts

Ben Cottier21 Dec 2022 13:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

OpenAI’s o1 tried to avoid being shut down, and lied about it, in evals

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 6 Dec 2024 15:25 UTC

23 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.transformernews.ai)

Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

David Varga20 Nov 2023 12:43 UTC

6 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

#176 – The final push for AGI, understanding OpenAI’s leadership drama, and red-teaming frontier models (Nathan Labenz on the 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours4 Jan 2024 16:00 UTC

15 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

[Question] Did OpenPhil ever publish their in-depth review of their three-year OpenAI grant?

Markus Amalthea Magnuson4 Jul 2022 14:11 UTC

128 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI lost $5 billion in 2024 (and its losses are increasing)

Remmelt31 Mar 2025 4:17 UTC

0 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

(www.wheresyoured.at)

Microsoft invests 1b$ in OpenAI

EdoArad22 Jul 2019 18:29 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.theverge.com)

The current state of RSPs

Zach Stein-Perlman4 Nov 2024 16:00 UTC

19 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Altman on the board, AGI, and superintelligence

OscarD🔸6 Jan 2025 14:37 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(blog.samaltman.com)

We are in a New Paradigm of AI Progress—OpenAI’s o3 model makes huge gains on the toughest AI benchmarks in the world

Garrison22 Dec 2024 21:45 UTC

26 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

OpenAI’s CBRN tests seem unclear

Luca Righetti 🔸21 Nov 2024 17:26 UTC

82 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Chinese Researchers Crack ChatGPT: Replicating OpenAI’s Advanced AI Model

Evan_Gaensbauer5 Jan 2025 3:50 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.geeky-gadgets.com)

Emergency pod: Judge plants a legal time bomb under OpenAI (with Rose Chan Loui)

80000_Hours7 Mar 2025 19:24 UTC

62 points

18 comments2 min readEA link

We read every labs safety plan so you don’t have to: 2025 edition

Algon29 Oct 2025 16:48 UTC

14 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

(aisafety.info)

Sam Altman gives me bad vibes

throwaway79031 May 2023 17:15 UTC

−11 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️22 Nov 2025 19:33 UTC

65 points

8 comments4 min readEA link

(www.wired.com)

Ex-OpenAI employee amici leave to file denied in Musk v OpenAI case?

TFD2 May 2025 12:31 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.thefloatingdroid.com)

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