# OpenAI: robotics company

Canonical ID: `bd3c5b86-a4cf-4655-842d-e32895c87e6b`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** [Sam Altman](/people/sam-altman.md) (Co-Founder)
- **Co-Founders:** [Sam Altman](/people/sam-altman.md), Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman
- **Design lead:** [Jony Ive](/people/jony-ive.md) (former Apple design chief, via LoveFrom + io acquisition)
- **Revenue:** $20B+ annualized (2025), targeting $100B by 2027
- **Valuation:** $157 billion (late 2024 funding round)
- **io acquisition:** $6.5 billion all-stock deal (May 2025) — OpenAI's largest acquisition
- **First device:** Screenless, pocket-sized AI companion — targeting late 2026 reveal
- **Bloomberg report:** Screenless smart speaker, AI companion for home, controls smart appliances
- **Product roadmap:** Speaker (2026-2027), smart glasses (2028), smart lamp (prototype), 200+ engineers
- **Manufacturing target:** 100 million devices
- **Chip partner:** Qualcomm (likely powering the device)
- **Financial stage:** Growth — $20B+ revenue, $157B valuation, expanding into hardware

- **Slug:** openai
- **Founded:** 2015
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, USA

## Models

- [OpenAI home device (unnamed)](/models/openai-home-device-unnamed.md) (form factor unknown) (id: `9c76c80a-3643-405e-93cb-32ef256c9dad`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Sam Altman](/people/sam-altman.md) CEO & Co-Founder (SEC-verified)
- [Jony Ive](/people/jony-ive.md) Chief Design Lead (via io acquisition) (SEC-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Sam Altman](/people/sam-altman.md) (cofounder)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is OpenAI?

AI research and deployment company expanding into consumer hardware through its $6.5 billion acquisition of io (Jony Ive's hardware startup) in May 2025. OpenAI's first device, developed with Ive and LoveFrom, is targeting a late 2026 reveal — a screenless, pocket-sized AI companion with built-in cameras and microphones that gathers contextual awareness from its surroundings. Bloomberg reports it will function as a screenless smart speaker controlling home appliances and answering questions via ChatGPT. A team of 200+ engineers is also developing smart glasses (2028) and additional AI-powered products. OpenAI aims to manufacture 100 million devices, with Qualcomm chips potentially powering the hardware.

### What does OpenAI make?

OpenAI has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: OpenAI home device (unnamed) (OpenAI builds physical robots).

### Where is OpenAI headquartered?

OpenAI is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

### Where does OpenAI operate robots?

OpenAI is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is OpenAI a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, OpenAI ranks in roughly the top under 1% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was OpenAI founded?

OpenAI was founded in 2015.


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