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Official OpenAI about page; useful for understanding the organization's stated mission and governance structure, but content is high-level and primarily serves as an entry point to more substantive linked documents like the AGI plan and charter.

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Summary

OpenAI's official about page describes the company's mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It outlines their dual organizational structure as a nonprofit foundation governing a for-profit public benefit corporation, and links to key documents like their AGI plan and charter.

Key Points

  • •Mission: ensure AGI—AI systems generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity
  • •Considers mission fulfilled even if their work helps others achieve safe AGI, not necessarily OpenAI itself
  • •Organizational structure: nonprofit OpenAI Foundation governs the for-profit OpenAI Group (public benefit corporation)
  • •Links to foundational documents: Planning for AGI and Beyond, and the OpenAI Charter
  • •Highlights active safety research including monitoring internal agents for misalignment and instruction hierarchy work

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# About

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

### Our vision for the future of AGI

Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

[Our plan for AGI](https://openai.com/index/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/) [Our Charter](https://openai.com/charter/)

![An impressionist painting depicting a colorful cityscape with expressive brushstrokes in a palette of blues, greens, yellows, and hints of pink under a light sky.](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/e632747f-9587-47a4-60779b6e0c90/cf75112eedea676e9deed512d191d1ac/planning-for-agi-and-beyond.jpg?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

Illustration: Justin Jay Wang × DALL·E

### We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

![OpenAI Offices](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/7fnM7WwfGlji0mE0t8DefO/cc161016b8d84fd6d789b06c92416544/stangel-openAI-offices-2022-1714.webp?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

### Careers at OpenAI

Developing safe and beneficial AI requires people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

[View all careers](https://openai.com/careers/search/)

![stangel-2022-1534](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/2ROfAZ7SlUiikj2Hp98LS0/7e71fd438017ce9cebe46fdce580bb04/stangel-2022-1534.webp?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

#### Learn more about what we do

- Research
- Products

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[Advancing voice intelligence with new models in the API\\
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Product](https://openai.com/index/advancing-voice-intelligence-with-new-models-in-the-api/)

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[GPT-5.5 Instant: smarter, clearer, and more personalized\\
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Product](https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-instant/)

![System Card 1x1](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/2VCkKLVmTyNs0XGbqdxGeA/33ff7738f4e795ae0ee41ed2b4a985d3/System_Card_1x1.jpg?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[GPT-5.5 Instant System Card\\
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Safety](https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-instant-system-card/)

![oai goblins](https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/1UA2Ru5dt5rwdQfwl6B6m3/13c19cd49b106f8a39d5a2a132343b77/Goblins-1_1_Art_Card.jpg?w=3840&q=90&fm=webp)

[Where the goblins came from\\
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Publication](https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/)

- [Read more](https://openai.com/news/company-announcements/)

### Our structure

OpenAI consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and the for-profit OpenAI Group. The Foundation governs the Group, which operates as a public benefit corporation. The OpenAI mission advances through the combined impact of both or

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