The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Move, Paypal Mafia: There is a new mafia in the Silicon Valley. As a startup behind Chatgpt, Openi is probably the biggest Ai player in the city. His meteoric ascent to a value estimate of $ 300 billion He encouraged many employees to leave Div Ai to create their own startups.

Hype around the Openi is so tall that some of these startups, such as the safe Supelligners of Ilya Sutskever and the Laboratory of Mira Murati Thinkins Machines, managed to raise billions of dollars without even running the product.

But there are many other startups in the ecosystem of Mafia Mafia. They move from Ai Giant Giant Giant Beapplexity to Xai, new owner x (earlier Twitter.) There are also smaller clothes with some futuristic plans, such as Living Carbon, which creates plants that sucked more carbon from the atmosphere, or prosper the robotics, which builds the Batler robot.

Below is the rounding of the most prominent startups founded by Openi Alumni.

Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and John Schulman – Anthropic

The brothers and sisters Dario and Daniela Amodi left the Openii 2021 to create their own startup, anthrop based in San Francisco, who has long had long charged focus on AI safety. Later, the co-founder of the OpenIA John Schulman Joined anthropy in 2024binding to build a “safe agi”. Openai allegedly remains repeatedly higher than anthropic income ($ 3.7 billion Compared to S. Billion dollars For 2024, data reported). But anthropic quickly grew into the largest Openi -ai rival It was estimated at $ 61.5 billion in March 2025.

Ilya sutskever – safe superior

OPENAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever left openii in May 2024 After he was allegedly part of a failed effort To replace The executive director I Altman. Shortly afterwards, he confronted with a safe superintelligence or SSIWith “one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence,” he says. Details of what exactly startup is scarce: there is no product and revenue yet. But investors are already advocating for a piece anyway, and that managed to raise two billion dollars, and the latest estimate allegedly increasing to $ 32 billion This month. SSI is based in Palo Alt, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mira Murati – Laboratory to think about machines

Mira Murati, Openai’s CTO, left Openii last year to find her own company, Thinking Machines Lab, which originated from concealment In February 2025, announcing (quite vaguely) that it would build AI that is “more adaptable” and “capable”. Startup San Francisco Ai does not have a product or income but Many former top opening researchers and is Allegedly in the pick -up process A huge $ 2 billion seed evaluation at $ 10 billion, minimal.

Aravind Srinivas – Confusion

Aravind Srinivas worked as a scientist at OpenIA for a year until 2022, when he left the company that a co-founder of AI search engine Benplexity. His startup attracted a number of high investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, although he is also caused controversy through the alleged non -ethnic scraping on the web. Confusion, based in San Francisco, is currently collecting about $ 1 billion with an estimate of $ 18 billion Since March 2025.

Kyle Kosic – XAI

Kyle Kosic left the Openai 2023 to become a co-founder and infrastructure leadership of Xai, Elon Musk’s AI startup offered by rival Chatbot, Grok. 2024, however, he jumped back to Openi. Xai based in a fallen altu recently acquired xEarlier Twitter and a combined entity gave an estimate of $ 113 billion. All-pier raised her eyebrows, but she A good job if you bet on a man’s empire.

Emmett Shear – Stem Ai

Emmett Shear is a former Twitch director who was Provisional CEO of OPENAI -A November 2023 a few days before Sam Altman joined the company. Shear works on his Published his own concealed startup, called Stem Ai, Techcrunch 2024. Although there is little details so far about his activity and collection of funds, it has already attracted the funding of Andreessen Horowitz.

Andrei Karpati – Laboratory EUREKA

An expert in computer vision Andrei Karpati was a member of the founder and scientist at Openi, in, leaving Startup that will join Tesla in 2017 Run your autopilot program. Carpathy is also known for its YouTube videos Explanation of fundamental AI concepts. Left Tesla in 2024 Found its own initiator of educational technology technologyEureka Labs, a startup based in San Francisco who builds assistants in teaching AI.

Jeff Arnold – Pilot

Jeff Arnold worked as the OPENAI chief for five months of 2016, before confronting the pilot to start accounting based in San Francisco in 2017. Pilot, which initially focused on the Startap accounting, The last time was collected by a $ 100 million series C in 2021, with an estimate of $ 1.2 billion And he pulled investors like Jeff Besos. Arnold worked as a pilot coo to departure 2024. To launch a VC Fund.

David Luan – Adept AI Laboratory

David Luan was an Openai engineering VP until he left in 2020. After being on Google, in 2021, he faced Adept Ai Labs, a startup that was building a tools for employees. Startup Last raised $ 350 million in north estimation of one billion dollars in 2023 but Luan left in late 2024 to oversee the Amazon Laboratory AI Agents after Amazon hired the founders of Adept.

Tim Shi – Crest

Tim Shi was an early member of the Openai team, where he focused on the construction of a safe artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked in Openi for a year in 2017, but left Crest, startup AI Center based in San Francisco, which raised more than $ 270 million from VC such as Sequoi Capital, Andressen Horowitz and others, according to A a statement.

Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan – Covariant

The trio worked at OpenIA in 2016 and 2017 as scientists for research before establishing a cvorno, startup based in Berkeley, in California, which builds AI models of robots foundations. 2023. Amazon hired all three founders and about a quarter of his staff. The quasi of the acquisition was looked at some As part of the wider trend of great technology that tries to avoid surveillance of Antitrustovsk.

Maddie Hall – Live Carbon

Maddie Hall worked on “Special Projects” at OpenAI, but left in 2019 based on Living Carbon, a startup headquartered in San Francisco, which aims to create engineering plants that can suck more carbon from the sky to fight climate change. Living Carbon raised a $ 21 million series in round 2023, bringing its total funds by then to $ 36 million, according to a a statement.

Sharma Hashme – Propper Robotics

Shariq Hashme worked for Openi 9 months of 2017 on a bot that could play popular video game Dota, according to his LinkedIn profile. After a few years at the startup scale of the AI ​​for data labeling, he faced the London Prospect Robotics 2021. Startup says he works on a robot butler for people’s homes, a hot trend of robotics who are other players that other players like Norway 1x and Texas Apptronic They also work on.

Jonas Schneider – Daedalus

Jonas Schneider led OPENAI’s S Startup based in San Francisco collected a $ 21 million series for last year with support from Khosla Ventures, among others.

Margaret Jennings – Kindly

Margaret Jennings worked at Openii 2022 and 2023. Until she left the co-founder Kindo, who For sale as Ai chatbot for businesses. Kindo raised more than $ 27 million funding, last lift $ 20.6 million in series A 2024. Jennings left Kingoa 2024 to conduct a product and research at French AI startup Mistral, according to her LinkedIn profile.