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OpenAI

GPT and ChatGPT. Largest AI lab by revenue.

HQ San Francisco, USFounded 2015late stageWebsite @OpenAI
Composite score
100.0
rank #1 · risers

The #1 Riser. 7.7k people and hiring.

Headcount
7.7k
0.0%
90d change
+1.4%
Funding events (90d)
2
11 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$716k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
12.5%
within typical band
Average tenure
1.9 yrs
Time since last raise
2 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · OpenAI

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
3,425
+58%
Product
387
+23%
Human Resources
347
+96%
Operations
337
+48%
Marketing
223
+91%
Research
207
+14%
Finance
141
+75%
Creative
138
+104%
Other
725

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. DecryptHeadlinetoday
    OpenAI Wants a Price War With Anthropic—Is It Proving DeepSeek Right?

    Primary subject; article focuses on OpenAI's pricing strategy, financial pressure, and competitive threats.

  2. Decrypt1d ago
    Morning Minute: Citadel Cautions Against the AI Trade Ahead of SpaceX IPO

    Named as readying IPO filing; part of Citadel's thesis on frontier AI consolidation but no specific news.

  3. The Block1d ago
    Visa says stablecoins are ‘reshaping the back end’ of commerce as it expands AI, tokenization efforts

    OpenAI named as Visa partner for agentic commerce payments integration; secondary to Visa's announcements.

  4. Decrypt1d ago
    AI Helped People Spot Fake News—Then Made Them Worse at It: MIT

    OpenAI's GPT-4o was the primary AI tool used in the MIT misinformation detection study.

  5. TechCrunch2d ago
    Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

    Named as Big AI competitor and model provider; mentioned alongside Anthropic as vendor lock-in risk Niteshift addresses.

  6. OpenAI2d ago
    PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US

    OpenAI publishes report on PRC-linked influence operations that used ChatGPT accounts for covert manipulation campaigns.

  7. TechCrunch2d ago
    Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

    Discussed as competitor in emerging-market price wars and frontier model provider at IPO risk, secondary to Google's announcement.

  8. OpenAI2d ago
    From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI

    Article is a case study of LSEG's deployment of OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise and APIs; OpenAI is a central subject and partner.

Events

Funding · series unknown · $75M
2mo ago
Funding · series unknown · $10B
3mo ago
Funding · corporate round · $1.0B
6mo ago
Funding · secondary market · $6.6B
8mo ago
Funding · undisclosed · $2M
1y ago
Funding · series unknown · $40B
1y ago
Funding · debt financing · $4.0B
2y ago
Funding · series unknown · $6.6B
2y ago
Funding · secondary market · $9.5B
2y ago
Funding · secondary market · $300M
3y ago
Funding · corporate round · $10B
3y ago
Layoff · 4.41% (92 roles)
Departures in 2022-12: 102 vs 6-mo baseline of 9.5 (10.74× spike). Derived from PDL.
4y ago

Score history

2026-06-08
100.0
rank #1
2026-06-01
100.0
rank #1
2026-05-25
100.0
rank #1
2026-05-18
100.0
rank #1
2026-05-11
81.8
rank #2
2026-05-04
81.8
rank #3
2026-04-27
71.8
rank #9
2026-04-20
65.2
rank #11
2026-04-13
69.5
rank #11
2026-04-06
68.0
rank #11
2026-03-30
87.3
rank #5
2026-03-23
60.0
rank #18