Valued at $750 billion, OpenAI today rivals technology companies that took decades to build. What began as a nonprofit research lab has evolved into a full-stack AI company, spanning frontier models, consumer and enterprise applications, compute infrastructure and AI hardware.
By comparison, Microsoft, founded in 1975, now trades at a valuation above $3 trillion after more than 40 years in business. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, became one of the fastest firms to surpass a multi-trillion-dollar value roughly two decades after its 2004 IPO.
Amazon, launched in 1994, followed a similar arc, building its valuation over years of expansion in cloud computing and e-commerce.
OpenAI’s rise has unfolded at a dramatically faster pace. As the company completes 10 years
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