Frontier AI Research Lab — Building Safe Artificial General Intelligence
The consensus on OpenAI: Choose OpenAI if you want to work at the frontier of AI with world-class colleagues and elite comp — but expect intense hours and rapid org changes.
Founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and others, OpenAI is the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. The culture is intensely mission-driven with a focus on building safe AGI. Engineers work on cutting-edge research with massive compute budgets. Expect world-class colleagues, elite compensation, and an environment that moves at breakneck speed.
Created GPT models, Whisper, CLIP, and Triton. Active open-source contributor despite some research being proprietary.
Publishes research papers on arxiv and maintains an active research blog covering scaling laws, alignment, and safety. Read the research →
Research-lab meets product org. Small, autonomous teams with high ownership. Engineers are expected to be self-directed and ship rapidly.