An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Frontier lab
Maker of ChatGPT and the GPT model family. October 2025 employee tender valued the company at ~$500B; reportedly raising a $122B primary round at an $852B valuation as of 2026.
| Name | OpenAI |
|---|---|
| Space | Frontier lab |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Latest valuation | $852B(confirmed) |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | San Francisco |
| Founders | Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman |
| Website | https://openai.com |
| Careers | https://openai.com/careers |
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| X / Twitter | — |
| Date | Round | Amount ($M) | Valuation | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | $500B | reported |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-03 | added | OpenAI added to tracker Latest valuation: $500B. | — |
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| Lab | Valuation | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| Thomson Reuters + Imperial College London Frontier AI Research Lab | — | 2025 |
| Anthropic | $965B | 2021 |
| xAI | $250B | 2023 |
| SSI (Safe Superintelligence) | $32B | 2024 |
| Moonshot AI | $20B | 2023 |
| Thinking Machines Lab | $12B | 2025 |
| Ineffable Intelligence | $5.1B | 2025 |
| Ricursive Intelligence | $4B | 2025 |