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American artificial intelligence company
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation (PBC) headquartered in San Francisco, California. It develops "frontier" generative AI models, particularly its generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) series of large language models. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom, leading to widespread use of generative AI; as of September 2026, ChatGPT is the fifth-most-visited website globally. OpenAI also releases the GPT Image models and Codex, an AI coding agent.
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A separate Iran-origin campaign used ChatGPT to edit and pitch nearly 100 articles that were published by real media outlets – under fake journalist bylines.
Takeaways Up Front 1. OpenAI banned ChatGPT accounts tied to a Russian front posing as a Latin American think tank. 2. The group used fake audio, emails