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Frontier Lab
OpenAI
Ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Valuation$852B
Funding$122B latest round
FlagshipGPT-6 Astra
Founded2015 · San Francisco
97
Bright Sentience Score
Rank #1 of 23
What they're building
The two central frontier-model companies are OpenAI and Anthropic. OpenAI is pushing models, agents, consumer AI (ChatGPT), enterprise and developer infrastructure all at once, with GPT-6 Astra (Sep 3, 2026) as its flagship for the hardest reasoning, coding, computer-use and research work, and a 1.05M-token context window.
Latest developments
- GPT-6.1 Sol launched Sep 29, 2026 with near-Astra performance at a fifth of the price and multi-agent delegation in beta.
- GPT-6 Astra (Sep 3, 2026) became OpenAI's flagship for reasoning, coding and research.
- Filed for an IPO on June 8, 2026 after a $122B round at an $852B post-money valuation.
Why it matters
Whoever owns the default interface to AI for consumers and developers shapes the whole industry. OpenAI still has the largest consumer footprint and the deepest developer ecosystem.
Key facts
Leader
Sam Altman
FoundersSam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever and others
PeopleSam Altman (CEO), Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist)
HQSan Francisco, USA
Latest modelGPT-6.1 Sol (Sep 29, 2026)
Valuation notePost-money after a $122B round (March 2026); IPO filed June 8, 2026
InvestorsMicrosoft, SoftBank, Thrive Capital, Nvidia, Khosla Ventures and others
WebsiteNearby on the leaderboard