OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company that was founded in 2015 by a prominent group of technology leaders including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, and John Schulman. Originally established as a nonprofit organization with the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity, OpenAI transitioned to a capped-profit model in 2019. This strategic shift aimed to facilitate funding while upholding its commitment to ethical AI development. OpenAI is known for its development of advanced AI technologies, particularly its large language models and generative AI systems, which have played a significant role in the advancement of natural language processing and machine learning.