OpenAI
Confidence 0.85 · 7 sources · last confirmed 2026-05-02
AI research and deployment company. Originator of ChatGPT (Nov 2022) and the GPT-3 / GPT-4 / GPT-5 series. Self-described in OpenAI HBR article as “an AI provider to over one million businesses.”
Models referenced in this wiki
- GPT-3 — substrate of the customer-support augmentation system in Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond (2025) QJE.
- GPT-3.5 / ChatGPT — the democratization breakthrough cited by Anand-Wu and the trigger for the GenAI adoption wave.
- GPT-4 — basis of the Dell’Acqua et al. 2026 BCG RCT and the Boussioux et al. 2024 crowdless-future study.
Research initiatives appearing in this wiki
- Economic Research team (led by Chief Economist Aaron Chatterji). Counterpart to Anthropic’s Anthropic Economic Index initiative. Members in this wiki: Gawesha Weeratunga, Harrison Satcher.
- Lowe’s partnership (2026-05-02-dutt-chatterji-ai-experimentation-to-transformation): launched Mylow (online customer-facing) and Mylow Companion (in-store associate-facing) AI interfaces in March 2025; Mylow Companion deployed across 1,700+ Lowe’s stores.
Other references
- Supporting partner of the AI Index (annual report from Stanford HAI).
- Anchor case in the Anand-Wu GenAI Playbook (ChatGPT as the access-democratization breakthrough).
- Subject of the open-source-AI strategic-analogy example (GPT-4 = Walmart, open source = fruit stand) discussed in Carroll & Sørensen 2024.
- Investment-figure context: U.S. private AI investment $285.9B in 2025 (2026-04-30-ai-index-report-2026).
Open questions
- The wiki has many references to GPT-4 / ChatGPT / OpenAI as substrate but no first-party OpenAI source has been ingested yet. The OpenAI Economic Research team’s writing (this article, plus their independent research papers) is a candidate for a deeper deep-read once a primary OpenAI Economic Research publication is added.