OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence research and deployment company headquartered in San Francisco. It was founded in 2015 with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. OpenAI develops advanced AI models, including the GPT family of large language models, DALL-E for image generation, and Sora for video generation. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 is credited with catalyzing the AI boom and widespread interest in generative AI.