Foundation Models
OpenAI
OpenAI is the developer of the GPT model family, ChatGPT, and the DALL-E and Sora generative systems. Founded as a research lab and now operating as a capped-profit company under a nonprofit parent, OpenAI shipped the first widely adopted consumer LLM product and remains the reference point for frontier model releases.
Why this matters in 2026
The November 2023 board-vs-CEO removal-and-reinstatement event (Sam Altman's removal followed by reinstatement within days) reset every enterprise AI buyer's view of vendor governance risk. The 2023 ChatGPT Redis exposure and the 2024 New York Times v. OpenAI copyright litigation are the other named OpenAI items in the Decipher Files corpus.
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- ChatGPT (consumer + Enterprise + Team + Edu)
- OpenAI API (GPT, o-series reasoning, Whisper, embeddings)
- DALL-E image generation
- Sora video generation
- Custom GPTs + GPT Store
Primary focus
Frontier large language models and consumer + API AI products
Applied AI roles OpenAI typically hires
DecipherU Files featuring OpenAI
- Samsung ChatGPT Data Leak: When Consumer AI Became an Enterprise Exfiltration ChannelMarch 2023 to May 2023
- DeepSeek-R1 Release: When AI Economics Shifted in a Single Trading DayJanuary 2025
- OpenAI o1 Release: When Test-Time Compute Became a Tunable KnobSeptember 2024
- OpenAI ChatGPT Redis Bug (March 2023): The Race Condition That Exposed Other Users' ConversationsMarch 20, 2023 (incident window 1 a.m. to 10 a.m. PT)
- New York Times v. OpenAI (Dec 2023): The Copyright Case That Defines AI Training LiabilityFiled December 27, 2023; litigation ongoing
- OpenAI GPT-4o Sycophancy Rollback April 2025: When a Post-Training Update Made a Frontier Model Excessively Agreeable25 April 2025 (deployment) to 29 April 2025 (rollback) to 2 May 2025 (postmortem published)
- OpenAI Sora Research Preview February 2024: When Frontier Video Generation Required New Provenance Infrastructure Before Public Launch15 February 2024 (research preview announcement) to 9 December 2024 (general availability)
- Microsoft Bing Chat 'Sydney' Behavior February 2023: When Indirect Prompt Injection and Persona Leakage Hit a Live Search Product7 February 2023 (Bing Chat preview launch) through March 2023 (Microsoft mitigations rolling out)
- Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy September 2023: When a Frontier Lab Published Capability-Tied Deployment CommitmentsSeptember 2023 (RSP v1.0 publication) through May 2024 (RSP v1.1 update) and ongoing
- Authors Guild v. OpenAI September 2023: When the Major Book-Author Class Action Joined the Generative-AI Training-Data Copyright Docket19 September 2023 (filing) through ongoing consolidated litigation in 2025-2026
- Snap MyAI Universal Rollout April 2023: When a Consumer AI Chatbot Defaulted On for a User Base That Included MinorsApril 2023 (universal rollout) through October 2023 (UK ICO investigation opens) and continuing regulatory engagement
- Doe v. GitHub Copilot November 2022: When the Open-Source Code Licensing Question Met an AI Coding Assistant3 November 2022 (filing) through 2024 (most claims dismissed; breach-of-contract claim survived; settlement of certain claims)
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