Who owns ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is owned and developed by OpenAI, a non-profit AI research and deployment company based in San Francisco, California.
OpenAI was founded in 2015 by Ilya Sutskever, its research director, Greg Brockman, its CTO, and a group of engineers and scientists, including Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Serving as co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk, while Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors.
Per the company, a couple of the founding members, tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, and Peter Thiel, and companies like Amazon Web Services, Infosys, and YC Research, have committed a total of $1billion to support its projects.
OpenAI also wrote on its website that its am is to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.”
