OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 2015, initially as a non-profit research organization, and later adopted a capped-profit and public benefit corporation structure to fund large-scale AI development. The company builds and researches general-purpose AI models across language, image, audio, and code. Its products include the ChatGPT assistant, the GPT family of large language models, the DALL-E image models, and developer APIs. OpenAI serves individual consumers, developers, and enterprises through subscription products and API access. Its stated mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.