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entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "OpenAI"
source_timestamps: ["00:00:00"]
tags: ["ai-labs", "corporations"]
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# OpenAI

## Profile

The leading artificial intelligence research laboratory and company. Public canonical reference: openai.com.

## Role in This Source

- Hired [[entity-peter-steinberger-d16]] to accelerate development of consumer-facing autonomous agents
- Signaling a strategic shift to compete in the [[concept-agentic-delegation]] paradigm
- Sponsoring (but not controlling) the OpenClaw foundation per [[claim-openai-acquired-founder-not-framework]]
- Pursuing a [[concept-chrome-chromium-model]] strategy with [[concept-openclaw-d16]]
- Their **Codex** model is cited as the post-training-optimized model that powered Steinberger's [[concept-vibe-coding-d16]] workflow and [[entity-harness]]'s multi-agent case study

## Leadership in This Source

- [[entity-sam-altman-d16]] (CEO) personally recruited Steinberger

## Contributions to This Vault

- Subject of [[claim-openai-acquired-founder-not-framework]]
- Subject of [[question-openclaw-independence]]
- Counterparty in the recruiting fight with [[entity-meta]]