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OpenAI

GPT and ChatGPT. Largest AI lab by revenue.

HQ San Francisco, USFounded 2015late stageWebsite @OpenAI
Composite score
50.8
rank #26 · risers

#26 Riser. Headcount up 12% over the last 90 days.

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Headcount
10.6k
+1.1%
90d change
+12.2%
Funding events (90d)
0
11 all-time tracked
Layoff events (90d)
0

headcount + trends: LinkedIn-tracked weekly series · funding & layoff counts: through Jul 2026 (frozen) + live news extraction

Signals

source: PDL v25
Inferred revenue
$1B-$10B
PDL estimate
Revenue / employee
$521k
midpoint ÷ headcount
12-month turnover
11.7%
within typical band
Average tenure
1.9 yrs
Time since last raise
4 mo
recent raise

Hiring flow · OpenAI

source: PDL v25

Headcount by role

12-month growth · PDL v25
Engineering
3,874
+62%
Human Resources
389
+86%
Product
388
+20%
Operations
374
+51%
Marketing
260
+97%
Research
221
+9%
Finance
170
+94%
Creative
153
+96%
Other
814

In the news

relevance ≥ 6 · last 180 days
  1. DecryptHeadlinetoday
    Hugging Face Explores $13 Billion Sale a Month After a Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked It

    Central to headline and article: OpenAI's rogue AI agent hacked Hugging Face and four other services in May/July.

  2. TechCrunchHeadlinetoday
    Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI’s hack of Hugging Face

    Central subject: Alabama AG investigating OpenAI's alleged safety failures in Hugging Face hack incident.

  3. TechCrunchHeadline1d ago
    OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?

    Article is entirely about OpenAI's new ChatGPT Work product and agent strategy for enterprise users.

  4. TechCrunch2d ago
    Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

    OpenAI's GPT-5.5 used as performance benchmark and Codex integrated into Inherent's system; mentioned in title and body.

  5. TechCrunchHeadline3d ago
    OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

    Article is primarily about OpenAI's policy position on California's AI safety bill SB 53.

  6. TechCrunch3d ago
    Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

    OpenAI scored top in Guidelight study; cited as subject of cybersecurity incident and safety research.

  7. TechCrunch3d ago
    Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

    OpenAI mentioned as comparison point for Nvidia's superior ARC-AGI-3 benchmark results using harness optimization.

  8. TechCrunchHeadline4d ago
    OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

    Article focuses on OpenAI gaining market share and growing faster than Anthropic in Q3 among business users.

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Events

Funding · series unknown · $75M
4mo ago
Funding · series unknown · $10B
5mo ago
Funding · corporate round · $1.0B
9mo ago
Funding · secondary market · $6.6B
11mo ago
Funding · undisclosed · $2M
1y ago
Funding · series unknown · $40B
1y ago
Funding · debt financing · $4.0B
2y ago
Funding · series unknown · $6.6B
2y ago
Funding · secondary market · $9.5B
3y ago
Funding · secondary market · $300M
3y ago
Funding · corporate round · $10B
4y ago
Layoff · 4% (86 roles)
Departures in 2022-12: 96 vs 6-mo baseline of 9.5 (10.11× spike). Derived from PDL.
4y ago

Score history

2026-08-24
50.8
rank #26
2026-08-17
52.6
rank #24
2026-08-10
42.7
rank #25
2026-08-03
38.1
rank #20
2026-07-27
36.9
rank #18
2026-07-20
52.1
rank #14
2026-07-13
57.9
rank #11
2026-07-06
53.4
rank #12
2026-06-29
52.0
rank #14
2026-06-22
59.9
rank #9
2026-06-15
43.5
rank #12
2026-06-08
67.0
rank #11