📚 Glossary
OpenAI
In one line: The AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models. Founded 2015, now valued in the hundreds of billions.
OpenAI is the AI research lab founded in 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and others. Originally a non-profit, it spun out a for-profit arm in 2019 and is now one of the most valuable private companies in the world.
OpenAI's products: ChatGPT (consumer), the API (used by thousands of apps including AskAI.free), DALL-E (image generation), Sora (video generation), Codex / Operator (agents).
Main competitors: Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Meta (Llama), DeepSeek (R1).
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