# clm_FD95027EF7A8

subject: OpenAI (/record/openai.md)  
predicate: founder  
value: Ilya Sutskever  
valid_from: undated  
valid_to: null  
published: no source on record carries a date  
recorded: 2026-10-27  
confidence: 0.70  
status: unverified  
assertable: false (unverified: Unverified: one source that is not primary, or a primary source below confidence 0.7. Asserted once a primary source or a second independent domain confirms it.)  
superseded_by: null  
last_updated: 2026-10-30  
checked: 2026-10-30 · its source page states the value and the date  

> OpenAI was formed in 2016 by Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO; Sam Altman, former president of the Y Combinator startup accelerator; Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist; and Greg Brockman, the former Stripe CTO.

What https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-invests-1-billion-openai-vows-build-ai-technology-platform-unprecedented-scale/ says, word for word.

## Sources

- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21708200 (secondary, Wikidata)
- https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-invests-1-billion-openai-vows-build-ai-technology-platform-unprecedented-scale/ (secondary)

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