OpenAI
Lineage
- Assistant
- ChatGPT
- Model families
- GPT AstraGPT SolGPT TerraGPT (before the Astra, Sol, Terra, Luna range)GPT LunaGPT mini and nano
- Headquarters and founding
- San Francisco, California, United States; founded in 2015
- Leadership
- Sam Altman, chief executive and co-founder; Greg Brockman, president and co-founder
Founding and headquarters: Wikipedia, 9 November 2026 ↗
OpenAI's assistant
The assistants ranking →ChatGPTAssistant · Celsius score62out of 100, 3rd out of 10Performance93Ethics52Environment40The assistant profile →OpenAI's models
OpenAI's models, general intelligence and release date
Epoch AI ECI index and its 95% interval; 14 models released in 2026 and measured by the ECI index; 14 models measured in all, in the "Table" tab
Dot: the index measured, at the release dateLine: the 95% interval5 names in the "Table" tab
Sources: Epoch AI, "Capabilities & benchmarking", ECI index and APEX-Agents. CC BY 4.0 licence.
An underlined name links to the model profile; the others are below the threshold for a profile (3 public measurements, or a place in the top 10 of a benchmark).
Governance and safety
- Company governance
- Agreement with the Pentagon a few hours after Anthropic's sanction (2/2026); $12.5m from its president to MAGA Inc. (2025).
- Model safety
- Grade C at the Future of Life Institute, 34% at SaferAI; o3 sabotaged its shutdown 79 times out of 100 (Palisade, 5/2025); at least 9 lawsuits from families joined in a single proceeding in California (2/2026).
Electricity and environmental approach
- Decarbonised electricity
- Mostly in the United States (384 g CO₂e/kWh); gas turbines authorised at the Stargate site in Abilene.
- Company's environmental approach
- A single figure, 0.34 Wh, without a method (June 2025); no emissions report or climate target.
Methodology: the ranking criteria ; the electricity use of a task for its models is a Projet Celsius estimate, based on the electricity use ofwriting 1,000 tokens (AI Impact Database).
Scores and facts: assistants ranking, scores as of 11/11/2026 (methodology 1.1), sources on the ChatGPT page. Models: Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Continue in the ranking
The full ranking →AssistantChatGPT62out of 100, 3rd out of 10Scores, plans, models, data and environment.The entry →ModelOpenAIGPT-6 Astra2ndout of 71 on general intelligenceOpenAI's best-ranked model on general intelligence.The entry →
CompanyMicrosoftNo model of its own measured; Copilot serves those of OpenAI and Anthropic.The entry →The hub newsletter
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