OpenAI

The creator of ChatGPT and GPT-series large language models, OpenAI restructured from a nonprofit to a for-profit public benefit corporation in October 2025 to enable large-scale outside investment. - Closed record $110B funding round; pursuing IPO by end of 2026 to unlock contingent Amazon investment

In October 2024, OpenAI raised $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation. Seventeen months later, on February 27, 2026, the maker of ChatGPT closed a record $110 billion funding round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation ($840 billion post-money)—the largest private capital raise in history. Amazon led with a $50 billion commitment ($15 billion upfront, $35 billion contingent on OpenAI achieving AGI or completing an IPO by year-end), while Nvidia and SoftBank each committed $30 billion. The round remains open for additional investors. The deal includes expanded infrastructure partnerships: Amazon will provide $100 billion in additional AWS compute services over eight years (on top of the existing $38 billion commitment), while Nvidia will supply 3 gigawatts of dedicated inference capacity and 2 gigawatts of training capacity using its Vera Rubin systems.

Updated Yesterday

The maker of ChatGPT, which has built a growing threat intelligence operation that has disrupted over 40 state-linked influence networks since February 2024. - Published the threat intelligence report; banned involved accounts

A Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT the way most people use a private notebook — to draft, revise, and polish status reports about their work. The problem: the work was a covert campaign to silence critics of the Chinese Communist Party living overseas. OpenAI's threat intelligence team read the reports, pieced together a transnational repression operation involving hundreds of operators, thousands of fake social media accounts, forged American court documents, and impersonation of United States immigration officials — then published the findings.

Updated 2 days ago

Developer of the GPT model series; GPT-5.2 Pro released December 2025 has demonstrated strong mathematical reasoning capabilities. - GPT-5.2 Pro central to multiple Erdős problem solutions

For the first time, AI systems are independently solving mathematical problems that stumped human researchers for decades. Since Christmas 2025, 15 problems from the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős's collection have been moved from 'open' to 'solved'—and 11 of those solutions specifically credited AI models. On January 6, 2026, a combination of OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro and Harmonic's Aristotle theorem prover produced the first fully autonomous AI solution to an Erdős problem that hadn't already been solved in the existing literature.

Updated Feb 13

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT model series, the most widely recognized artificial intelligence company globally. - Largest AI lab by valuation; facing significant losses

Three years ago, Anthropic had not yet earned a dollar in revenue. This week, it closed a $30 billion funding round—the second-largest private tech raise in history—at a $380 billion valuation. The company now generates $14 billion in annualized revenue, having grown tenfold in each of the past three years.

Updated Feb 13

San Francisco-based AI company that pioneered commercial reasoning models with o1 in September 2024. - Primary competitor in reasoning model development

OpenAI launched the first commercial reasoning model in September 2024. Seventeen months later, Google claims its upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think has pulled ahead on the benchmarks that matter most for science. The February 2026 update scored 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2—a test designed to measure how well artificial intelligence generalizes to novel problems—and 48.4% on Humanity's Last Exam, a collection of 2,500 expert-level questions crowdsourced from nearly 1,000 specialists worldwide.

Updated Feb 13

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT models, leading the $500 billion Stargate infrastructure project with SoftBank and Oracle. - Leading Stargate infrastructure project

The four largest cloud providers—Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon—guided to over $650 billion in combined AI infrastructure spending for 2026 during their February earnings reports, up sharply from $350 billion in 2025, and have begun tapping debt markets to fund the buildout. Microsoft and Meta reported on January 28-29 with divergent market reactions: Microsoft shares plunged 12% on $37.5 billion quarterly capex, while Meta surged on $115-135 billion 2026 guidance. Alphabet stunned investors February 4 with $175-185 billion capex plans—doubling last year's spend—while Amazon topped all on February 5 with a $200 billion pledge, 50% above 2025 and $50 billion over expectations, prompting a share selloff despite strong revenue beats.

Updated Feb 10

Creator of GPT-4 and o-series reasoning models that generate training data for future models. - Developing reasoning models with self-improvement potential

Google DeepMind announced in May 2025 that AlphaEvolve—an AI agent powered by Gemini—discovered a way to speed up Gemini's own training by 23%. The system found smarter matrix multiplication algorithms, shaving 1% off training time for a model that costs $191 million to train. Small numbers, massive implications: AI just started improving the process that creates AI. In January 2026, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told the World Economic Forum in Davos that genuine human-level AGI is now 'five to 10 years' away, with Google's latest Gemini 3 model topping performance leaderboards.

Updated Jan 31

ChatGPT creator pushing for uniform federal AI rules to replace state patchwork. - Lobbying for federal preemption of state laws

The DOJ's AI Litigation Task Force began operations on January 10, 2026, with one mission: kill state AI laws in federal court. California, Texas, and Colorado passed comprehensive AI regulations throughout 2025—transparency requirements, discrimination protections, governance mandates. President Trump's December executive order called them unconstitutional burdens on interstate commerce. Now Attorney General Pam Bondi's team will challenge them, consulting with AI czar David Sacks on which laws to target first.

Updated Jan 12

The company that catalyzed the reasoning era with GPT-5 but stumbled on execution as rivals closed the gap. - Market leader facing intensified competition

OpenAI's GPT-5 dropped on August 7, 2025, completing AI's transformation from chatbots that string words together to systems that actually think through problems step-by-step. Google DeepMind's reasoning models won gold at the International Math Olympiad, solving problems only five human contestants cracked. Anthropic's Claude, Meta's Llama, and every major AI lab sprinted to build models that pause, plan, and reason rather than just predict the next word.

Updated Jan 8

OpenAI is the benchmark rival in the consumer assistant and developer API markets. - Competing on model quality and product velocity as Google expands Gemini defaults.

The rollout didn’t stop at “Flash is the default.” In the days after launch, Google filled in the missing contract with developers: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is now explicitly priced in the Gemini API, with context caching rates, batch pricing, and a clear note that Gemini 3-era Search grounding will begin billing on January 5, 2026.

Updated Dec 20, 2025

OpenAI is turning its dominance in text and video models into a licensed IP ecosystem. - Secured Disney as Sora’s first major content partner and a $1B strategic investor.

Mickey Mouse just shook hands with the algorithm Hollywood spent two years trying to tame. Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and letting Sora and ChatGPT Images legally pump out short videos and images starring more than 200 Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters — but not the actors who play them.

Updated Dec 11, 2025