#OpenAI
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- Adam D'Angelo Founder and chief executive of Quora and Facebook's chief technology officer from 2006 to 2008, an OpenAI director since 2018 who voted to remove Sam Altman in 2023 and kept his seat.
- Bret Taylor Google Maps co-creator, Facebook chief technology officer, Salesforce co-chief executive and Twitter board chair who has chaired OpenAI's board since Sam Altman's reinstatement in November 2023.
- Daniela Amodei Daniela Amodei is the cofounder and president of Anthropic, who ran operations and people functions at Stripe and OpenAI before starting the company with her brother Dario, and who is married to Open Philanthropy cofounder Holden Karnofsky.
- Dario Amodei Dario Amodei is the cofounder and chief executive of Anthropic, a physicist and computational neuroscientist who led GPT-2 and GPT-3 as OpenAI's vice president of research before leaving in 2020 with a group of colleagues to build a rival AI lab.
- Greg Brockman OpenAI cofounder and first chief technology officer who quit when removed as board chairman in November 2023, returned as president, and with Anna Brockman gave 50 million dollars to two political committees in 2025.
- Helen Toner Open Philanthropy analyst who became director of strategy at the Open Philanthropy-funded Georgetown CSET and, as an OpenAI director, voted in November 2023 to remove Sam Altman.
- Ilya Sutskever Ilya Sutskever is the deep-learning researcher who co-built AlexNet under Geoffrey Hinton, cofounded OpenAI as its chief scientist, voted to remove and then reinstate Sam Altman in the November 2023 board crisis, and left in May 2024 to cofound Safe Superintelligence.
- Jack Clark Jack Clark is the cofounder and head of policy at Anthropic, a former technology journalist who ran policy and communications at OpenAI, co-chairs Stanford's AI Index, and writes the Import AI newsletter.
- John Schulman John Schulman is an OpenAI cofounder and reinforcement-learning researcher who created the PPO algorithm, helped build ChatGPT and the RLHF alignment behind it, left OpenAI for Anthropic in August 2024, and then cofounded Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab as chief scientist.
- Larry Summers Lawrence H. Summers is the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president under whom Jeffrey Epstein's 6.5 million dollar gift founded Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, and who corresponded with Epstein until July 2019.
- Leopold Aschenbrenner German-born former FTX Future Fund staffer and OpenAI Superalignment researcher, fired in 2024, who founded Situational Awareness LP, an AI-infrastructure hedge fund that CNBC reported was forced to sell its public holdings in 2026.
- Mira Murati Mira Murati is the Albanian-born engineer who rose to chief technology officer of OpenAI, oversaw the development of ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sora, served as interim chief executive during the November 2023 board crisis, left in September 2024, and founded the AI lab Thinking Machines Lab.
- Paul Christiano OpenAI alignment lead and Open Philanthropy adviser who founded the Alignment Research Center, sat on Anthropic's trust, ran AI safety at NIST's AI Safety Institute and joined the OpenAI Foundation board in 2026.
- Sam Altman Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur who led Y Combinator, cofounded and runs OpenAI, launched the iris-scanning identity project Worldcoin, and was briefly fired and reinstated as OpenAI chief executive in the November 2023 board crisis.
- Tasha McCauley Robotics and geospatial entrepreneur, RAND adjunct and UK board member of Effective Ventures, who as an OpenAI director voted in November 2023 to remove Sam Altman and then left the board.
Organizations (7)
- Asana Work-management software company founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, controlled by Moskovitz, whose board long included OpenAI director Adam D'Angelo and which buys AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic.
- Leading the Future Super PAC registered in Henderson, Nevada, in 2025, funded with 75.1 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz, Greg and Anna Brockman and Perplexity, which passes its money to affiliated committees spending in 2026 congressional races.
- Middlebury Institute CTEC Research center at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, founded in 2018, whose work on extremist language models, Telegram networks and games drew on OpenAI access, DHS grants and Logically funding.
- OpenAI OpenAI is an artificial-intelligence company founded as a nonprofit in 2015 with a billion-dollar pledge from backers including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, and Peter Thiel, whose 2023 firing and reinstatement of CEO Sam Altman exposed the conflict between its effective-altruism-aligned safety board and its commercial expansion.
- Thinking Machines Lab Thinking Machines Lab is the AI research company Mira Murati founded in 2025 with a team drawn heavily from OpenAI, including John Schulman, Barret Zoph, and adviser Bob McGrew, which raised a roughly 2-billion-dollar seed round at a 12-billion valuation reported as one of the largest seed rounds ever.
- xAI xAI is the artificial-intelligence company Elon Musk founded in 2023 after departing OpenAI, builder of the Grok model and the Colossus supercomputer, which merged with X in 2025, raised tens of billions of dollars, and whose founder sued OpenAI and Sam Altman over the abandonment of OpenAI's nonprofit mission.
- Y Combinator Startup investor founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell, whose research affiliate shared officers and a lender with OpenAI and whose federal PAC registered in 2025.
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