OpenAI Foundation — Founded Date: Dec 2015
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Our claim
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- OpenAI Foundation
- Property
- Founded Date
- Value
- Dec 2015
- Notes
- Originally founded as OpenAI, Inc. in December 2015 by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, and others. Renamed to OpenAI Foundation in October 2025 as part of corporate restructuring.
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1 src · 1 checkNoteThe claim states 'OpenAI Foundation's Founded Date = 2015-12' (December 2015). The source confirms that OpenAI was founded in 2015, but the source does NOT state the OpenAI Foundation was founded in December 2015. Rather, the source explicitly states: 'OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit' and 'With our updated structure, announced on October 28, 2025: The nonprofit is now the OpenAI Foundation.' This means the entity called 'OpenAI Foundation' was created/renamed in October 2025, not founded in December 2015. The original organization (founded 2015) was renamed to OpenAI Foundation in 2025. The claim conflates the founding date of the original organization with the founding date of the entity named 'OpenAI Foundation,' which are different dates. The source contradicts the claim's assertion that the OpenAI Foundation was founded in 2015-12.