Go ahead, PayPal Mafia: Silicon Valley has a new tech mafia. Beginning behind the Chat GPT, the Open is the largest AI player in the city. Its alka rise In the value of $ 300 billion Many employees are encouraged to leave AI giant to start their own start.
The hype around the open is so high that some of them have been able to raise billions of dollars without launching the lab, such as Elias Suscore’s Safe Superintendees and my dawn -thinking machines, without launch.
But there are many startups in the Openi Mafia Environmental System. This AI search giant is from anxiety to Xi, New Owner of X (Former Twitter.) There are also small organizations with some future plans, such as living carbon, which are making plants that suck more carbon than the environment, or prosperous robotics, making robot butler.
Below is a round -up of the most notable Startups set up by the Open former students.
Dario Amodi, Daniela Amody, and John Shilman – Anthropic
Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodi left Open in 2021 to form an anthropic based in San Francisco, which is long Tooted AI focus on safety. Later, co -founder of Openi John Sholman Joined Anthropic in 2024Promise to make “safe Agi”. The allegedly remains multiple times larger than anthropic through an opinion revenue (7 3.7 billion Compared to billion 1 billion For 2024, information is reported). But Anthropic has fastened to Openi’s biggest rival and In March 2025, it was worth $ 61.5 billion.
Elias Stevever – Safe Sprintelins
Openai co -founder and chief scientist Elias Sutcor In May 2024 left Openi Allegedly after that A part of a failed attempt To change CEO Sam Altman. Immediately after that, they Safe Sprintilins, or co -founder of SSIHe says, “A purpose and a product: with a safe sprintylin”. Details about the fact that the startup is very low: it has no product yet and no revenue. But investors are contending for a piece anyway, and it has been able to raise $ 2 billion with its latest diagnosis. Rising up to $ 32 billion This month, SSI is based in Israel’s Paulo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv.
My dread – thinking machines lab
Open’s CTO, Meerati left Openi last year to find the lab of his company, thinking machines, which Emerged from the stealth In February 2025, (rather vague), announcing that it would build AI, which is more “custom” and “capable”. San Francisco AI Startup has no product or tax but Former high -opinous researchers plenty of And is In the process of allegedly nurturing A mass billion 2 billion seed round, which costs billion 10 billion, is minimum.
Arand Srinivas – Anxiety
Arawind Srinivas worked as a research scientist in Openai by 2022, when he left the company on the basis of an AI search engine trouble. Its start has attracted a wire of high -profile investors like Jeff Bezos and Newodia, even though it is Due to the conflict More than allegedly immoral web scraping. Anxiety, which is based in San Francisco, is currently To collect about $ 1 billion at a cost of $ 18 billion By March 2025.
Kyle Kosk – Z
In 2023, the Open was left to become Zee’s co -founder and infrastructure lead, Elon Musk’s AI startup offers rival Chatboat, Grook. In 2024, however, they Turned back Openi Paulo Alto resident of Recently achieved xFirst, Twitter, and the joint venture gave $ 113 billion. All stock transactions raised some eyebrows but is If you are betting on the Empire of Kasturi a good deal.
Emmet Share – Steam Ai
Amate Share are the former CEO of the Tweich that was Openai’s interim CEO in November 2023 For a few days before that Sam Ultman joined the company. Share is working on it Tech Croatch revealed that Self -Startup named Steam Ai In 2024. Although there are some details about its activity and fundraising so far, it has already attracted the fund from Anderson Horwitz.
Andridge Carpathi – Yoraka Labs
Computer vision expert Andridge was a founder member and research scientist at Open with, leaving Start to join Tesla in 2017 Guide its auto pilot program. Carpati is also famous for his YouTube Videos Explanation of basic AI concepts. She left Tesla in 2024 His educational technology beganEuraka Labs, a startup based in San Francisco, is making AI Teaching Assistants.
Jeff Arnold – Pilot
Jeff Arnold served as the head of Open’s Head of Operations in 2016 before the co -founding of the accounting startup pilot in Sun Francisco. Million 100 million Series C Collecting $ 1.2 Billion in the last time in 2021 And has attracted investors like Jeff Bezos. Arnold worked as a pilot’s COO status until this time Leave To launch the VC Fund in 2024.
David Luan – Adapt AI Labs
David Luan Openai’s engineering was VP unless he left in 2020. After a significant location in Google, in 2021, it founded the Adapt AI Labs, which is a startup that creates AI tools for employees. Startup Last time a diagnosis collected 350 million in the north Of $ 1 billion in 2023, but Luan Left at the end of 2024 to monitor Amazon’s AI agents lab After Amazon hired the founders of Adapt.
Tim Shi – Crista
According to his LinkedIn profile, Tim Shi was the first member of the Openi team, where he focused on the construction of a safe synthetic general intelligence (AGI). He worked in Open for a year in 2017, but left for San Francisco -based AI -based Center startup, Christa, which has increased more than $ 270 million from VC like Sequrea Capital, Anderson Horweights and others. Press release.
Peter Ebil, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan
All of them worked as research scientists in Openi in 2016 and 2017, who creates a Foundation AI model for the robot before the founder of a startup based in Coordinator, Berkeley, California. In 2024, Amazon hired all three kovarian founders And a quarter of its staff. Was the pursuit of Looked through something As part of a wider trend of large tech, efforts are being made to avoid the testing of distrust.
Medi Hall – Live Carbon
Medi Hall worked on “special projects” in Open but in 2019, a startup based in San Francisco, which is to form engineer plants that aims to suck more carbon than the sky to fight the climate change. According to one, live carbon collected $ 21 million in the series A round in 2023, so far its total funding was increased to $ 36 million. Press release.
Sharma Hashmi – prosperous robotics
According to his LinkedIn profile, Sharaq Hash worked for 9 months for 9 months in 2017, which can play a popular video game Dota. After a few years at the Data Labeling Startup Scale AI, he laid the foundation of a London -based prosperous robotics in 2021. Startup says he is working on robots for people’s homes, which is a hot trend in robotics that other players Like 1x of Norway And Aptonic based in Texas They are also working.
Jonas Schneider – Dedals
Jonas Schneider led the opening software engineering for the robotics team but left for Dedals co -found in 2019, which builds modern factories for precision ingredients. Startup based on San Francisco Last year a million gathered 21 million series Among others, with the backing of Khosla Ventures.
Margaret Jennings – Condo
Margaret Jennings worked in Openi in 2022 and 2023 Markets itself as an AI chat boot for enterprises. Condo has last collected more than $ 27 million Pick A series of $ 20.6 million in 2024. Jennings dispatched Condo in 2024 for product and research in French AI Startup Mr., according to his LinkedIn profile.