Go up, PayPal Mafia: There is a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As starting behind Chatzi, OpenAI is reasonably the largest AI player in the city. Its weather growth has encouraged many employees to leave the AI giant to create their own startups to evaluate $ 300 billion.
Hypes around the Openai are so high that some of these startups, such as the safe supergence of Elias Sutskver and Mira Murai, have been able to collect a few billion dollars without even launching any products.
However, there are many other startups in the OpenAI Mafia Ecosystem. From the AI search giant to the new owner of the X, the new owner of the X (formerly Twitter) has some small clothing, such as living carbon, which is making plants that make more carbon breast or enrich robotics from the atmosphere, which is creating a robot butler.
Below is one of the most notable startups founded by the Open -Open alumni.
Dario Amodai, Daniela Amodai and John Shulman – Ethnic
Vibons Dario and Daniela Amodee left Open in 2021 for their own startup, San Francisco -based ethnographic formation, which has long been Touched A focus on AI protection. Later, OpenAI co-founder John Shulman joined the ethnic in 2021, promising to create a “safe AGI”. OpenAI is reported to be multiple times larger than anthropological by revenue ($ 3.7 billion In comparison $ 1 billion For 2024, information has been reported). However, the ethnographic has become the largest rival in the open opener, and in March 2025 it was priced at $ 61.5 billion.
Ilya Sutskver – Safe Superintelies
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskver left Open in May 2021, when he was reported to be part of the failed attempt to replace CEO Sam Altman. Shortly after that, he said “a goal and a product: a safe superintelization” with a safe superintelization or SSI, “he said.” The beginning is very low about what the start is: it has no product and no earn. However, it is no longer a piece of dollars and this is the last evaluation of $ 2 billion. California is located in Palo Alto and Israel’s Tel Aviv.
Mira Murarati – Thinking Machine Lab
OpenAE CTO Mira Murai left OpenAI last year to find its own company, Thinking Machines Lab, which derived from Steelth in February 2021, declared (rather vaguely) that it would create more “customized” and “capable” AI. San Francisco has no product or earnings in AI startup but there are many former OpenAI researchers and it is reported that a minimum of $ 10 billion worth of $ 2 billion seeds worth $ 2 billion are reported to be increased.
Arabind Srinivas – confusion
Arrivind Srinivas worked as a research scientist in the OpenAI for a year until 2022, when he left the AI search engine co-seeking company of confusion. His startup has attracted a string of high-profile investors like Jeff Bezos and Nvidia, though it has also created controversy over web scraping. The confusion, located in San Francisco, is currently collecting about $ 1 billion in the assessment of about $ 1 billion till March 2021.
Kyle Kosc – Jai
Kyle Kosik left the open in 2021, with Elon Mask’s AI Startup Jai co-founder and infrastructure leadership, which provided the rivals chatbot, grock. In 2024, however he Back back Open. Palo Alto-based Jai recently earned Twitter and gave $ 113 billion evaluations to the Combined entity. The All-Stock transaction has raised some eyebrows but if you are betting on the Kasturi Empire, it’s a good deal.
Emmet Shear – Stem AI
Emmet Sheer is a former CEO of Twitch, who was the interim CEO of Openi for a few days before joining Sam Altman in November 2021. Shear is working on its own stealth startup, known as Stem AI, published in TechCrunch 2021. Although there are still a few details about its activities and funds, it has already attracted financing from Andresen Horovits.
Andrez Carpathi – Eurka Labs
Computer vision expert Andrez Carpathi was a founding member and research scientist at the OpenAI, leaving the startup to join Tesla in 2017 to lead his autopilot program. Carpathy is also well known for his YouTube Video To explain the core AI ideas. He left Tesla in 2021 to find out his own education technology startup, Eureka Labs, San Francisco-based startup that is producing AI Teaching Assistants.
Jeff Arnold – Pilot
Jeff Arnold worked as the Operation Operation Operation Head of Open in 2016 before the San Francisco-based accounting startup pilot co-organization in 2017. The pilot, which initially focused on accounting for startups, raised a $ 1 million series C in 2021 and attracted investors like Jeff Bezos. Arnold worked as the COO of the pilot Is going to leave To launch a VC fund in 2024.
David Luan – Adapt AI Labs
David Luan was the Engineering VP of OpenAE until he left for 2021. After a step in Google, he established the advetip AI Labs in 2021, it was a startup that created AI equipment for staff. The startup finally collected $ 1 million in the assessment of $ 1 billion in 2021, but Luan went to oversee the Amazon’s AII Agents Lab in late 2021 after the appointment of Amazon Adap.
Team Shi – Crestle
Team Shi was the first member of the OpenAIA team, where he focused on the construction of Safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) according to his LinkedIn profile. He worked for a year at OpenAI in the 2017, but found the startup crest at the San Francisco-based AI communications center that collected more than $ 1 million from VCS like Sikoia Capital, Andresen Horovitz and others, according to this. Press releaseThe
Peter Abel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan – Covenant
This trio all worked as a research scientist in OpenAe in 20 2016 and 25, based on California -based startups that created the Foundation AI model for robots. In 2024, the Amazon Coverrent appointed the founder and about a quarter of its staff. Were half acquisition Seen by something As part of a wide trend of big technology trying to avoid anti -investigation.
Maddi Hall – Living Carbon
Worked on “Special Projects” in the Opeena, but in 2019 a co-founder of a startup based on San Francisco went to Living Carbon, which aims to create more carbon plants outside the sky to fight climate change. Living Carbon has extended a round of $ 21 million in 2023, which brings total funds to $ 36 million, according to one Press releaseThe
Shari’a Hashmeme – rich robotics
Sharick Hashme worked for OPENCE for 9 months in a bot in a bot in the popular video game dota according to his LinkedIn profile. A few years later on the Data-Lelbing Startup scale AI, he was co-founded in London-based Prosper Robotic in 2021. Startup says it is working on a robot Butler for People’s Homes, a heated trend of robotics that are also working in Norway’s 1X and other players like Texas-based Apronic.
Jonas Snyder – Dadalus
Jonas has led OpenAI’s software engineering for the Robotics team, but in 2019, Dadalus has been co-explored, which creates a better factory for accuracy material. San Francisco-based startup was raised in a 21 million series last year with the support of Khosla Venture among others.
Margaret Jennings – Kindo
Margaret Jennings worked on Open in 2022 and 2023 until he moved to the co-finder Kindo, which marketed himself as an AI chatbot for initiative. Kindo has finally collected more than $ 27 million Raising A 20.6 million dollars in 2024 in a series of dollars. Jennings left Kindo in 2024 for products and research at French AI Startup Myster in 2024, according to its LinkedIn profile.