# OpenAI **Domain:** Artificial Intelligence / Research / Deployment **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[wiki/Sam Altman|Sam Altman]], [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]], [[wiki/Language Model|Language Model]] --- ## Definition **OpenAI** is an artificial-intelligence research and deployment organization that develops general-purpose AI models, systems, and developer platforms. ## Corpus Context The vault treats OpenAI as an institution node, distinct from [[wiki/Sam Altman|Sam Altman]] as a person, individual model families as technical artifacts, and claims about [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|artificial general intelligence]] as conceptual propositions. [[articles/Sam Altman and The Merge|The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman]] routes the 2017 essay through Altman's person node, [[wiki/Biological Bootloader|Biological Bootloader]], and [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] rather than treating the organization as the author of the thesis. ## Sources / Provenance - [OpenAI — about](https://openai.com/about/) ## See Also [[wiki/Sam Altman|Sam Altman]] · [[wiki/Artificial General Intelligence|Artificial General Intelligence]] · [[wiki/Language Model|Language Model]] · [[wiki/Transformer Models|Transformer Models]] · [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]]