who owns chatgpt

ChatGPT is owned and developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded in 2015 by notable tech leaders including Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and others. OpenAI started as a nonprofit but transitioned to a capped-profit model to attract funding. Microsoft is the largest investor in OpenAI, having invested around $13 billion, which gives it significant influence but does not constitute outright ownership of ChatGPT or OpenAI. Elon Musk was a co-founder but no longer holds a stake in the company. Sam Altman is the current CEO of OpenAI.