OpenAI says it’s “almost certain” we’ll build superintelligence in the next ten years.
- OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015, and became a for-profit entity earlier this year.
- The company stunned the world with ChatGPT in late 2022, which had an outsized impact on business and society and inspired hundreds of AI solutions.
- Microsoft’s early backing of OpenAI has come to be regarded as one of the most successful business partnerships in the current era.
OpenAI turned 10, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday.
From being set up as a research lab in 2015, the company has scaled incredibly to have an outsized impact on business and society, unlike few before it. “From a deeply uncertain start and against all reasonable odds, with continued hard work it now looks like we have a shot to succeed at our mission,” OpenAI’s blog post read. It also linked a picture from the first day of the company in January 2016.
OpenAI detailed its journey through various achievements and pitfalls, several large language models (LLMs), and the November 2022 public launch of ChatGPT – “The world took notice.”
“In ten more years, I believe we are almost certain to build superintelligence,” the company said, referring to the concept of an AI capable of outperforming humans across all intellectual tasks with far greater speed, accuracy, and insight.
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Key milestones
| Timeline | Event |
| Dec-15 | Sam Altman sets up OpenAI as a reseach lab |
| Jul-19 | Microsoft invests $1B |
| Jun-20 | GPT-3 API rollout, the first-ever commercial LLM |
| Nov-22 | ChatGPT public release |
| Mar-23 | GPT-4 laucnhes, set “Intelligence” benchmark |
| Nov-23 | OpenAI ousts & then reinstates CEO Sam Altman, leading to a board reshuffle |
| Feb-24 | Sora video generation model launches, stuns film-makers |
| Mar-25 | Raises $40B funding led by SoftBank, largest private round ever |
| Oct-25 | Converts to a for-profit entity |
| Nov-25 | OpenAI nears $20B ARR, commits $1.4T investment over 8 years |
ChatGPT became the second-most viral app globally
Unleashes an explosion in cloud capacity
Nvidia, upon finding out that its graphics-centric GPUs also do great with AI tasks, becames an unexpected beneficiary of the AI boom
New LLM development at breakneck pace; developing regions lead growth for U.S. AI apps (source: Mary Meeker’s ‘Bond’ Report – May 2025)
ChatGPT and AI apps are disrupting Google’s core search business
Although, ChatGPT and Gemini are forming a duopoly
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