--- title: A History of OpenAI's Relationship With Microsoft description: OpenAI, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation founded in December 2015 by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and other AI researchers; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Sam... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-history-of-openai-s-relationship-with-microsoft-jzcp4ct5o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A History of OpenAI's Relationship With Microsoft | daily.dev og:description: OpenAI, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation founded in December 2015 by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and other AI researchers; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Sam... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-history-of-openai-s-relationship-with-microsoft-jzcp4ct5o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jZcp4CT5O.png og:image:alt: A History of OpenAI's Relationship With Microsoft og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A History of OpenAI's Relationship With Microsoft **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenAI, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation founded in December 2015 by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and other AI researchers; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, a tech-startup incubator with hundreds of companies in its portfolio. 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