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Frontier AI Lab
Founded Dec 2015 (10 years old)HQ: San Franciscoopenai.com

Also known as: OpenAI Inc, OpenAI LP, OpenAI Global LLC

Grades from external scorecards. We mirror published grades only; per-source methodology lives at the link in each panel header. See the scorecards directory for cross-org comparison.

FLI AI Safety Index

by Future of Life InstitutePublished 2025-12-02Source ↗
Overall:C+
Current Harms
C-
Existential Safety
D
Governance & Accountability
C+
Information Sharing
B
Risk Assessment
B
Safety Frameworks
C+
Grade trajectory (3 waves)
Winter 2025latest
C+
Summer 2025
C
December 2024
D+

AI Lab Watch

by Zach Stein-PerlmanPublished 2025-09-01Source ↗
Overall:Very Weak
Risk info sharing
Weak
Misuse prevention
Very Weak
Planning
Very Weak
Risk assessment
Weak
Boosting safety research
Weak
Scheming risk prevention
Very Weak
Prep for extreme security
Very Weak

Foundation Model Transparency Index

by Stanford CRFMPublished 2025-12-01Source ↗
Overall:35
Agent Protocols
0
AI bug bounty
100
Amount of usage
0
AUP enforcement frequency
0
AUP enforcement process
0
Basic model properties
0
Benchmarked inference
0
Benefits Assessment
0
Capabilities evaluation
100
Capabilities taxonomy
0
Carbon emissions for final training run
0
Change log
100
Classification of usage data
0
Code access
0
Compute hardware for final training run
0
Compute provider
0
Compute usage for final training run
0
Compute usage including R&D
0
Consumer/enterprise usage
0
Crawling
100
Data acquisition methods
0
Data domain composition
0
Data laborer practices
0
Data language composition
0
Data processing methods
0
Data processing purpose
0
Data processing techniques
0
Data replicability
0
Data retention and deletion policy
100
Data size
0
Deeper model properties
0
Detection of machine-generated content
100
Development duration for final training run
0
Distribution channels with usage data
0
Documentation for responsible use
100
Downstream
58.3
Acceptable use policy
60
Accountability
100
Downstream mitigations
100
Impact
14.3
Model Behavior Policy
75
Post-deployment monitoring
71.4
Usage data
20
Energy usage for final training run
0
Enterprise mitigations
100
Enterprise users
0
External data access
0
External developer mitigations
100
External products and services
0
External reproducibility of capabilities evaluation
0
External reproducibility of mitigations evaluation
0
External reproducibility of risks evaluation
0
External risk evaluation
100
Feedback mechanisms
0
Foundation model roadmap
0
Geographic statistics
0
Government commitments
100
Government use
0
Instructions for data generation
0
Intermediate tokens
100
Internal compute allocation
0
Internal product and service mitigations
100
Internal products and services
100
Licensed data compensation
0
Licensed data sources
0
Misuse incident reporting protocol
0
Mitigations efficacy
100
Mitigations taxonomy
100
Mitigations taxonomy mapped to risk taxonomy
100
Model
43.3
Capabilities
25
Model cost
0
Model dependencies
0
Model access
0
Model information
0
Model Mitigations
80
Model objectives
0
Release
62.5
Model response characteristics
100
Risks
60
Model stages
0
Model theft prevention measures
100
New human-generated data sources
0
Notice of usage data used in training
0
Open weights
0
Organization chart
0
Oversight mechanism
100
Permitted and prohibited users
100
Permitted, restricted, and prohibited model behaviors
100
Permitted, restricted, and prohibited uses
100
Post-deployment coordination with government
100
Pre-deployment risk evaluation
0
Public datasets
0
Quantization
0
Regional policy variations
100
Release stages
100
Researcher credits
0
Responsible disclosure policy
100
Risks evaluation
100
Risks taxonomy
100
Risk thresholds
100
Safe harbor
100
Security incident reporting protocol
100
Specialized access
0
Synthetic data purpose
0
Synthetic data sources
0
System prompt
0
Terms of use
100
Top distribution channels
0
Train-test overlap
0
Upstream
2.9
Compute
0
Data Acquisition
8.3
Data Processing
0
Data Properties
0
Methods
0
Other resources
0
Usage data used in training
0
Users of internal products and services
0
Versioning protocol
100
Water usage for final training run
0
Whistleblower protection
100
Grade trajectory (3 waves)
v1.2 December 2025latest
35
v1.1 May 2024
97
v1.0 October 2023
48