OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. The organization was founded in San Francisco in late 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others who collectively pledged US$1 billion. The company is considered a competitor for DeepMind Technologies.