Imagine you start a research company that swiftly, and largely unexpectedly, becomes a product-focused tech titan, with a controversial tool that finds itself being used by around 300 million people every week. The company’s value has exploded from around $29 billion in 2023, to $157 billion in late 2024, to around $340 billion in early 2025.OpenAI sets out its mission statement(Image credit: OpenAI)The company is OpenAI, founded in December 2015 by a group of eleven entrepreneurs, developers an...