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Move around PayPal Mafia: In Silicon Valley there is a new tech mafia. As a startup behind Chatgpt, Openai is probably the city’s largest AI player. His meteoric increase For an assessment of 300 billion US dollars Has made many employees leave the KI giant to create their own startups.
The hype around Openaai is so high that some of these startups, such as Ilya Sutskevers Superintelligence and Mira Muratis, could raise billions of dollars without starting a product.
But there are many other startups in the Openai Mafia ecosystem. These range from AI search giant giant giant to Xai, The new owner of X (formerly Twitter). There are also smaller outfits with some futuristic plans such as Living Carbon that creates plants that get more carbon out of the atmosphere, or prosperage robotics that build a robot butler.
Below you will find a summary of the most remarkable startups founded by Openai -Alumni.
Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and John Schulman – Anthropic
The siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei left Openai in 2021 to form their own startup, the Anthropic in San Francisco, which has long touted A focus on AI security. Later, co -founder of Openaai, John Schulman Anthropic competed in 2024to promise to build a “safe agi”. According to reports, Openai remains larger several times than stabically by income (3.7 billion US dollars compared to 1 billion US dollars The information reported for 2024). But Anthropic quickly grown to Openai’s greatest rival and was rated in March 2025 with $ 61.5 billion.
Ilya Sutskever – safe superintelligence
Openai co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever Openaai calmly in May 2024 After he was supposedly Part of a failed effort substitute CEO Sam Altman. Shortly thereafter Co -founded safe superintelligence or SSIWith “one goal and a product: a safe superintelligence,” he says. Details about what exactly the startup is up to are sparse: it has no product and no income yet. But investors still ask for one piece and it could collect 2 billion US dollars, with the recent evaluation supposedly Increase to 32 billion US dollars this month. SSI is based in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
Mira Murati – memorial laboratory
Mira Murati, Openais CTO, left Openaai last year to found her own company Thinking Machines Lab, that Jump out of Stealth In February 2025, (quite vague) announced that it would build AI that is “more customizable” and “capable”. However, the AI startup in San Francisco has no product or income, but no income Many former Top Openai researchers and is Reports in the process of increasing A massive seed round of 2 billion US dollars with a minimum of 10 billion US dollars.
Aravind Srinivas – confusion
Aravind Srinivas worked as a research scientist at Openaai until 2022 when he left the company to join the AI search engine. His startup has attracted a number of top -class investors such as Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, although it is also caused controversy About alleged unethical web ridges. Confusion based in San Francisco is currently Introducing around 1 billion US dollars with an evaluation of $ 18 billion From March 2025.
Kyle Kosic – Xai
Kyle Kosic left Openai in 2023 to become a co-founder and infrastructure lead of Xai, Elon Musk’s Ki startup, which offers a competing chatbot, grok. In 2024, however, he Bop back to open. Palo Alto Basion Xai recently acquired xFormerly Twitter, and gave the combined unit an evaluation of 113 billion US dollars. The all-standard transaction has raised some eyebrows, but it is Good business if you bet on Musks Imperium.
Emmett Shear – Stem Ai
Emmett Shear is the former Twitch CEO who was Openais Interim CEO in November 2023 For a few days before Sam Altman returned to the company. Scher works on his Own stealth startup called Stem Ai, reveals Techcrunch 2024. Although there are only a few details about its activities and donations so far, the financing of Andreessen Horowitz has already attracted.
Andrej Karpathy – Eureka Labs
The computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy was a founding member and research scientist at Openaai and went The startup to join Tesla 2017 lead his autopilot program. Karpathy is also known for his YouTube Videos Explain Ki -Ki concepts. He left Tesla in 2024 found his own startup for education technologyEureka Labs, a startup based in San Francisco, builds the AI teaching assistant.
Jeff Arnold – Pilot
Jeff Arnold worked for five months as an Openai director of Operations, before stood in 2017 with the bookkeeping start-up pilot based in San Francisco with the pilot pilot pilot pilot based in San Francisco, which initially concentrated on the consideration of startups. Most recently, he collected a series C of 100 million US dollars in 2021 with an assessment of 1.2 billion US dollars And put investors like Jeff Bezos. Arnold worked as a pilot -cooo until Leave in 2024 to start a VC fund.
David Luan – Adept Ai Labs
David Luan was an Openas Technical VP until he left in 2020. After a stay on Google, he was the adept Ai Labs in 2021, a startup that builds AI tools for employees. The startup Most recently, 350 million US dollars collected to the north in a rating of 1 billion US dollars in 2023, but Luan Leaved at the end of 2024 to monitor the AI agent -laboratory from Amazon after Amazon hired the founder of Adepte.
Tim Shi – Cresta
Tim Shi was an early member of the Openai team, in which, according to his LinkedIn profile, he focused on building a safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2017 he worked at Openaai for a year Press release.
Pieter Abbel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan – covariant
The trio worked as a research scientist in 2016 and 2017 at Openaai before founding a startup in Berkeley, California, the foundation AI models for robots. In 2024, Amazon hired all three of the covariant founders And about a quarter of his employees. The quasi acquisition was seen by some As part of a broader trend by Big Tech, who tries to avoid antitrust rights.
Maddie Hall – life volume
Maddie Hall worked on “Special Projects” at Openaai, in 2019 at the co -founder of Living Carbon, a startup in San Francisco, which aims to create technical plants that can suck more carbon from heaven to combat climate change. In 2023, Living Carbon collected a round of the series of Series A with 21 million US Press release.
Sharma Hashme – Prosper Robotics
Shariq Hashme worked for an bot for 9 months for 9 months for Openai who, according to his LinkedIn profile, could play the popular video game Dota. After a few years in the data marking start-up startup scale Ai, he was co-founder of Prosper Robotics based in London in 2021. Like Norway 1x And Apptronik in Texas also work on.
Jonas Schneider – Daedalus
Jonas Schneider headed the Openai software engine for robotics team, but in 2019 went to the co-exception of Daedalus, which builds the advanced factory for precision components. The startup based in San Francisco Last year collected a series of 21 million US dollars A With the support of Khosla Ventures.
Margaret Jennings – Kindo
Margaret Jennings worked at Openaai in 2022 and 2023 until she went to the Members of Kindo, what markets itself as an AI chat bot for companies. Kindo recently collected over 27 million US dollars in financial resources increase A 2024 of the 20.6 million US dollars. Jennings left Kindo in 2024 to lead product and research at French Ai Startup Mistral, according to her LinkedIn profile.
