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Data confidence: High

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4. The company that kicked off the generative AI boom.

Founded by: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever

DMI: 49#1 of 262 (Top 1%)HN 30d: 1157
30,169 · 4,594 forks
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OpenAI has a Developer Momentum Index of 49, ranking #1 of 262 companies. Key metrics include 247.6M monthly package downloads, 30.2K GitHub stars, $171.7B in total funding.

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Developer Adoption

Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window

npm Downloads (30d)
55.9M
openai
PyPI Downloads (30d)
191.6M
openai
Total Downloads (30d)
247.6M
npm + PyPI combined
Active Contributors (30d)
4
Unique committers, 30-day window
npm Dependents
10.9K
Packages using openai

Active Contributors Trend

44444Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

github contributors remained stable at 4 over the last 90 days.

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Dategithub contributors
Mar 5, 20264
Mar 6, 20264

npm Dependents Trend

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npm Download Trend

53,152,07154,550,80955,949,54857,348,28758,747,025Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

npm Downloads remained stable at 55,949,548 over the last 90 days.

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Datenpm downloads
Mar 5, 202655,949,548
Mar 6, 202655,949,548

PyPI Download Trend

181,235,969186,026,566190,817,164195,607,762200,398,359Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

PyPI Downloads grew from 190,010,421 to 191,623,907 over the last 90 days.

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Datepypi downloads
Mar 5, 2026190,010,421
Mar 6, 2026191,623,907
Key Signals

Developer Community Metrics

Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.

HN Discussion Rank#2 in Foundation Models by HN mentions (out of 33 tracked)
HN vs Category68.1x category median (1157 vs 17 median)
GitHub VelocityCommit velocity declining (0.2x vs 4-week average)
Funding Trajectory9 rounds in 122 months, ($1.0B → $1.0B → $2.0B → $10.0B → $300M → $800M → $6.6B → $40.0B → $110.0B)
Community Sentiment0% positive HN sentiment (200 comments) • High confidence

Category Benchmark

33 Foundation Models companies
247.6M downloads/mo18191% above median
0Median: 1.4M2.7M+

Funding Rounds

Venture$110.0B

2026 · Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia

Venture$40.0B

2025 · Founders Fund, Coatue, Microsoft +3 more

Venture$6.6B

2024 · Fidelity, Microsoft, Thrive Capital +5 more

Show 6 earlier rounds
Venture$800M

2024 · Thrive Capital, Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz +2 more

Venture$300M

2023 · Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global +2 more

Strategic Investment$10.0B

2023 · Microsoft

Strategic Investment$2.0B

2021 · Microsoft

Strategic Investment$1.0B

2019 · Microsoft

Venture$1.0B

2015 · Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel +1 more

Cite This Data

According to AI-Buzz, OpenAI has 55,949,548 npm downloads in 30 days, with 191,623,907 PyPI downloads in 30 days, with 4 active contributors in 30 days, with 10,869 npm dependent packages, ranks #2 in Foundation Models for HN discussion share (out of 33 tracked with 17.7% of HN discussion), with 0% positive developer sentiment (200 HN comments analyzed), with 2 commits/week (declining).

Source: https://www.ai-buzz.com/companies/open-ai?utm_source=citation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cite_this_data

Metrics derived from public APIs (HN Algolia, GitHub, npm/PyPI). Sentiment classified by AI. See methodology for details →

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Description

Creator of ChatGPT and GPT-4. The company that kicked off the generative AI boom.

Estimated Company Size

501 - 1000 employees

Website

openai.com

Details

Founded

2015

Description

OpenAI builds general-purpose AI systems. Their GPT models power ChatGPT and thousands of apps via API. DALL-E generates images. Sora creates video. They're the 800-lb gorilla of AI.

Data Confidence

Excellent
96/ 100

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Open Source

30.2K
Stars
4.6K
Forks
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Last commit: 2 days ago
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