What OpenAI does
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI) and making its benefits broadly available. The company operates through a nonprofit–for-profit structure: the OpenAI Foundation (nonprofit) governs a public benefit corporation, OpenAI Group PBC (for-profit), which runs the commercial business and is required to advance the mission alongside stakeholder interests. OpenAI’s strategy combines frontier model development with scaled product distribution across consumer and enterprise offerings, plus developer platform access via its API and related tooling. Its business model centers on selling access to models (through ChatGPT products and API Platform) and monetizing enterprise deployments (ChatGPT Enterprise/Business, Codex and agentic workflows), while relying on major infrastructure partners for compute and deployment at scale.