OpenAI Foundation — Founded Date: Dec 2015
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Our claim
entire record- Subject
- 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 that OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit, and then 'The nonprofit is now the OpenAI Foundation' as of October 28, 2025. The OpenAI Foundation is the renamed entity as of October 2025, not the original 2015 founding entity. The original entity founded in 2015 was 'OpenAI' (a nonprofit), which was later renamed to 'OpenAI Foundation' in October 2025. Therefore, the founding date of the OpenAI Foundation specifically is October 2025, not December 2015. The claim conflates the founding date of the original OpenAI nonprofit (2015) with the founding date of the entity called 'OpenAI Foundation' (October 2025).