OpenAI

Signals

Funding history

• Undisclosed Other announced 1 Sep 2026 coverage →

  Andreessen Horowitz

• $7 billion Other announced 11 Aug 2026 coverage →

• $20 billion Late stage announced 6 Aug 2026 coverage →

  SoftBank Group

• Sam Altman CEO & Co-Founder
• Alexandra Wilke Communications DACH
• Cipluk Carlita Communications Lead, Indonesia
• Aya Sato Comms Lead
• Andy Rogerson EMEA Communications, OpenAI
• Larissa Haida Head of Communications DACH
• Aaron McLear Vice President, Communications
• Chloe Browne Head of Communications, Australia & New Zealand
• Vasundhara Mudgil Head of Communications - India
• Kathleen Chaykowski Communications
• Cheryl Sim Communications Manager, Product and Consumer, APAC
• Maud Camus Head Of Communications For Southern Europe

+ 23 more tracked

Recent changes

• 2 Sep ▼ Hannah Wong left (was Chief Communications Officer)
• 2 Sep ▲ Niko F. joined as Communications
• 2 Sep ▲ Lindsay McCallum Rémy joined as Head of Product & Research Communications
• 2 Sep ▲ Cory Decareaux joined as Global Head Of Events
• 2 Sep ▲ Jake Wilczynski joined as APAC Communications
• 2 Sep ▲ Lindsey Held Bolton joined as Vice President Communications

Latest developments

Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion as OpenAI’s Stargate Partner Hits a $30.9 Billion Valuation Trending Topics · 6 hours ago · 19

Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories” TechCrunch · 9 hours ago · 16

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a GPT-6 configuration for legal research SiliconANGLE · 9 hours ago · 7 The people building the most powerful AI are telling us to slow down. Congress should listen before it's too late Fortune · 49 As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing Fortune · 45 King Charles III holds court with AI’s biggest players—and warns it could soon be too late to rein in the technology Fortune · 10 OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales Fortune · 4

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft 404 Media · 10 hours ago · 4

September 2026

◆ OpenAI and Crusoe announce a partnership Partnership

◆ Crusoe Technology raises $3.9 billion in a Series F funding round at a $30.9 billion valuation Funding

◆ New unredacted court filings in the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft allege large-scale scraping of paywalled news content for AI training, including internal executives’ characterizations of the conduct as theft Legal action

◆ OpenAI’s autonomous agents allegedly probed Hugging Face account defenses before a later major hack Incident

◆ OpenAI patched two reported exploits that allowed code to escape the Codex sandbox and run commands outside it Security issue

◆ OpenAI reported rare self-generated prompt-injection text appearing in compaction-based summaries for some models Security issue

◆ OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a vision-language model offered with cyber-defense and tool-safety safeguards, with related changes to API and ChatGPT access and pricing Model release

◆ OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal-focused GPT-6 configuration for research and drafting Product launch

◆ OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment incidents and published six additional concerning behavior reports Other

◆ Arcee AI raised new funding valuing the company at over $1 billion while continuing development of its open-weight Trinity models Funding

◆ OpenAI began rolling out Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT for AI-driven advertising, including marketer tools and Shopify/HubSpot integrations Deployment

◆ Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single Claude interface and began rolling out new Docs and Slides capabilities in beta to paid tiers Feature update

◆ TypeSafe AI launches “System One” decision model Jev and exits stealth with seed funding Model release

◆ OpenAI acquires Glass Imaging Acquisition

◆ Report highlights how workers worldwide are using AI tools for everyday business and creative tasks, shifting costs and work practices Other

◆ Dario Amodei and OpenAI announce a partnership Partnership

◆ Sam Altman said OpenAI’s planned IPO window is being pushed out beyond 2026 due to ongoing AI safety and alignment concerns Funding

◆ U.S. General Services Administration and OpenAI announce a partnership Partnership

◆ Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigns and warns that frontier AI could pose an existential risk Executive move

◆ OpenAI and WAN-IFRA announce a partnership Partnership

◆ OpenAI and AIRPPU announce a partnership Partnership

◆ OpenAI and MS-ISAC announce a partnership Partnership

◆ OpenAI and Frontline Defenders announce a partnership Partnership

◆ OpenAI and METR announce a partnership Partnership

• 18 Sep Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion as OpenAI’s Stargate Partner Hits a $30.9 Billion Valuation
• 17 Sep Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
• 17 Sep OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a GPT-6 configuration for legal research
• 17 Sep The people building the most powerful AI are telling us to slow down. Congress should listen before it's too late
• 17 Sep As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing
• 17 Sep King Charles III holds court with AI’s biggest players—and warns it could soon be too late to rein in the technology
• 17 Sep OpenAI hires Brian McCarthy from SpaceX as its VP of worldwide sales
• 17 Sep ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
• 17 Sep Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
• 17 Sep OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
• 17 Sep Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
• 17 Sep Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
• 17 Sep “Be transparent only if asked”: OpenAI’s models learned to leave notes for their future selves
• 17 Sep Billionaire TikTok founder is now the richest person in all of Asia, with a $105 billion net worth—he's gained $92 billion since 2019 thanks to AI
• 17 Sep Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
• 17 Sep The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
• 17 Sep New home for Cowork
• 17 Sep Exclusive: PeakMetrics tracks brand reputations across five top AI platforms
• 17 Sep King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands
• 17 Sep AI #186: The World Takes Notice
• 17 Sep Escaping the OpenAI Codex sandbox, twice
• 17 Sep The Sequence Opinion - Issue 935: Chinese Algorithmic Efficiency vs. American Scale in Frontier AI
• 17 Sep OpenAI discloses six new incidents of ‘concerning’ AI behavior
• 17 Sep Accomplish: escaping the OpenAI Codex sandbox (twice)
• 17 Sep Reuters: OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face weaknesses before a major hack
• 17 Sep OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models
• 17 Sep Last Week in AI #344 - Navier–Stokes, Pacing the Frontier, AI Misuse
• 17 Sep OpenAI Releases a Model Misalignment Disclosure Framework With 3 Review Tracks and 6 Incident Reports From RL Training
• 17 Sep Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
• 17 Sep Edgee Codex Compressor V2
• 17 Sep OpenAI reveals six more safety issues and unveils plan to disclose incidents
• 17 Sep OpenAI unveils new framework for reporting ‘AI misalignment’ as it reveals six more worrying incidents
• 17 Sep Introducing Astra for Law
• 16 Sep Would you buy branded clothing from your favourite tech firm?
• 16 Sep Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
• 16 Sep TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M to build AI for use by software
• 16 Sep Our framework for reporting model misalignment
• 16 Sep Like millions of Americans, OpenAI’s Sam Altman unwinds from thinking about AI by scrolling on TikTok before bed: 'I happen to like short-form video'
• 16 Sep Arcee AI trained four models for $20 million. Now, it's worth $1 billion.
• 16 Sep Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
• 16 Sep Nobody Waited For Them, But Sponsored AI Agents Are Coming to ChatGPT
• 16 Sep OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger Invests Into Austrian RegTech Startup signteq
• 16 Sep Reimagining advertising with AI
• 16 Sep OpenAI eyes $1.2T valuation in fresh funding talks ahead of potential 2027 IPO
• 16 Sep OpenAI Considers Pre-IPO Funding Round at More Than $1.2 Trillion Valuation
• 16 Sep Fortune Tech: GM’s CarPlay backtrack, crypto framework fails, AI’s four-day workweek
• 16 Sep How workers are unlocking new ways of working
• 16 Sep A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
• 16 Sep Concat: open-source, CapCut-style desktop editor with multi-track editing and offline features
• 16 Sep Sketchpad Live turns GPT-Live/Astra into a whiteboard teacher for drawing and narration

Relationships

Products & technology

• Develops ChatGPT · 216 sources
• Develops Codex · 65 sources
• Develops GPT-5.6 Sol · 43 sources
• Develops GPT-6 Astra · 37 sources
• Develops GPT-4 · 36 sources
• Develops ChatGPT Enterprise · 32 sources
• Develops GPT-5.6 · 30 sources
• Develops GPT-5 · 29 sources
• Develops Astra · 29 sources
• Develops GPT-4o · 24 sources

Competition

• Competes with Hugging Face · 26 sources

People

• Sam Altman employed by this company · 23 sources