---
id: "entity-openai-d18"
type: "entity"
entityType: "organization"
canonicalName: "OpenAI"
aliases: []
source_timestamps: ["00:09:00", "00:57:00"]
tags: ["ai-vendor"]
related: ["entity-chatgpt", "entity-sam-altman", "claim-ai-memory-lock-in"]
sources: ["s18-anthropic-openai-memory"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s18-anthropic-openai-memory"
originDay: 18
---
# OpenAI

## Profile

OpenAI is the AI research and deployment company behind [[entity-chatgpt-d18]]. Led by [[entity-sam-altman-d18]].

## Role in the Source

Referenced as one of the two principal commercial AI vendors (alongside [[entity-anthropic-d18]]) whose memory features are characterized in [[claim-ai-memory-lock-in]] as deliberate platform-stickiness mechanisms producing the [[concept-honing-effect]]. Switching from OpenAI to a competing vendor is one of the canonical triggers for the [[concept-tool-switching-penalty]].