OpenAI: Artificial Intelligence Research for Humanity's Benefit

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. It was founded in December 2015 by a group of technology executives, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Sam Altman, with the goal of promoting and developing friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company's research focuses on deep learning, reinforcement learning, natural language processing, robotics, and other areas of artificial intelligence. OpenAI has partnered with a number of companies and organizations, including Microsoft, IBM, and the World Economic Forum, and has made its research available to the public through open-source software and publications.