OpenAI is a research institute focused on advancing artificial intelligence technologies. It was founded in 2015 by Elon Musk and several other prominent individuals, with the goal of promoting and developing friendly AI. OpenAI conducts research in a variety of areas, including computer vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning. The organization has also released several widely-used AI models, including GPT-3, which is one of the largest and most powerful language models in existence.