The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Move, Paypal Mafia: There is a new technical mafia in Silicon Valley. As the starting start behind ChatGPT, Openai is to say that Openai is the largest player of artificial intelligence in the city. The height of the meteorite has stimulated an evaluation of $ 300 billion on many employees to leave the artificial intelligence giant to create their own startup companies.

The noise around Openai is so high that some of these startups, such as Sutskever Supercelceligence Safe Machines and Mira Murati, managed to raise billions of dollars without even launching a product.

But there are many other startups in the Openai Mafia ecosystem. This ranges between the giant confusion to search for artificial intelligence to Xai, the new owner of X (previously Twitter.) There are also smaller clothes with some future plans, such as Living Carbon, which create plants that absorb more carbon from the air, or prosperity robots, which build a petroler robot.

Below is a tour of the most important start -up companies founded by Openai graduates.

Dario Amoudi, Daniela Ameudi, and John Shuelman – Anthrobour

Dario and Daniela Ameudi’s siblings left Openai in 2021 to form their starting start, Anthroban in San Francisco, who has long been focusing on the safety of artificial intelligence. Later, John Shuelman, co -founder of Openai, joined the Antarbur in 2024, a contract to build “AGI safe”. According to what was reported, Openai remains larger several times than Antarbur with revenue ($ 3.7 billion compared to one billion dollars for 2024, according to the information). But Antarbur grew rapidly to become the largest competition in Openai and its value of $ 61.5 billion in March 2025.

Elia Soskfar – Super Son

In May 2024, the co -founder of Openai and the chief scholar Elijah Soskv left Openai in May 2024 after he was part of a failed effort to replace CEO Sam German. Shortly after that, he participated in the founding of Safe Superintelligence, or SSI, with “one goal and one product: safe experts”, he says. Details about what is exactly the start starting: It has no product or revenue yet. But investors are calling for a piece in any case, and it has managed to raise two billion dollars, with its last rating increased to 32 billion dollars this month. The SSI headquarters is located in Palu Alto, California, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mira Moratti – Thinking Machinery Laboratory

Mira Morati, CTO of Openai, Openai, left last year to find her private company, Machines Lab, who came out of the ghost in February 2025, declared (somewhat mysterious) that it will build Amnesty International more customer and “capable.” Openai, is said to be in the process of raising a huge round of $ 2 billion to evaluate it at $ 10 billion, minimum.

Aravind Srinivas – Al Haira

Aravind Srinivas worked as an Openai’s research scientist for a year until 2022, when he left the company to participate in the confusion of the artificial intelligence search engine. The start of the start of a series of prominent investors such as Jeff Bezos and Nvidia attracted, although it also caused a controversy over alleged unethical webing. Al -Hirah, which is based in San Francisco, is currently about one billion dollars, rating of $ 18 billion as of March 2025.

Kyle Cosic – XAI

Kyle Kosic Openai left in 2023 to become a co -founder and Xai infrastructure, starting AI Elon Musk, which offers Chatbot competitor, GROK. In 2024, he jumped to Openai. XAi, based in Palu Alto, recently acquired X, Twitter, and gave the joint entity an assessment of $ 113 billion. All stocks deal raised some eyebrows, but it is a good deal if you are betting on the Musk Empire.

Emmett Shear – STEM AI

Emmett Shear is the former executive director of Twitch who was the temporary CEO of Openai in November 2023 for a few days before Sam Germany joined the company. SEAR works to start its operating, which is called STEM AI, Techcrunch was detected in 2024. Although there are little details about its activity and the collection of donations so far, it has already attracted funding from Andressen Horowitz.

Andrej Karpathy – Eureka Labs

The Andrej Karpathy computer expert was a founding member and research scientist in Openai, leaving the starting start to join Tesla in 2017 to lead the Autopilot program. Karpathy is also famous for its YouTube videos that explain the basic artificial intelligence concepts. Tesla left in 2024 to find the start of its educational technology, Eureka Labs, a startup based in San Francisco that builds assistants in teaching artificial intelligence.

Jeff Arnold – Pilot

Jeff Arnold worked as head of Openai for a period of five months in 2016 before participating in the establishment of a start -up pilot in San Francisco in 2017. Pilot, who initially focused on holding startups, raised the last $ 100 million in 2021 with a value of $ 1.2 billion and attracted investors such as Jef Bezos. Arnold worked as a pilot’s operations manager to leave in 2024 to launch the VC Fund.

David Luan – ADEPT AI Labs

David Luan was the Vice president of Engineering at Openai until he left in 2020. The start starting company raised the last $ 350 million with a rating of northern billion dollars in 2023, but Luan left in late 2024 to supervise the Amazon Ai Agents laboratory after Amazon founded ADEPT.

Tim Shi – Christa

Tim Shi was an early member of the Openai team, focusing on building safe artificial intelligence (AGI), according to his profile LinkedIn. He worked in Openai for a year in 2017, but he left for Cresta, a start -up company at San Francisco, which raised more than $ 270 million from VCS such as Sequoia Capital and Andressen Horowitz, and others, according to a press release.

Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen and Rocky Duan – Covariant

The trio worked in Openai in 2016 and 2017 as research scientists before the establishment of Covariant, an emerging company based in Berkeley, in California, adopting the models of Amnesty International Robotat. In 2024, Amazon rented all the three changing founders and about a quarter of its employees. It was seen almost that some of the broader trend of major technology was trying to avoid scrutiny in the fight against monopoly.

Maddie Hall – Live Carbon

Maddie Hall worked on “Special Projects” in Openai, but in 2019 she left to participate in Living Carbon, a startup based in San Francisco aimed at creating geometric plants that can absorb more carbon from the sky to fight climate change. Living Carbon raised a round of a $ 21 million chain in 2023, raising its total financing until then to $ 36 million, according to a press statement.

Shariq Hashme – Prosper Robotics

Shariq Hashme worked in Openai for a period of 9 months in 2017 on a robot that can play the famous video game DOTA, according to his profile LinkedIn. A few years after the permissible data start scale, he participated in the establishment of London -based Prosper Robotics in 2021. The startup says it is working on Bater Robot for people’s homes, a hot trend in robots that other players such as Apptronik in Norway 1x and based in Texas -based Norway.

Jonas Schneider – Daidalus

Jonas Schneider led software engineering in Openai for programs, but in 2019 he left the Daedalus, which builds advanced factories for fine components. An emerging company based in San Francisco raised an Australian Australian chain of $ 21 million last year with support from Josla Votshers, among other things.

Margaret Jennings – Kindo

Margaret Jennings worked in Openai in 2022 and 2023 until she left to the founding of Kindo, which markets itself as the AI ​​chat for institutions. Kindo raised more than 27 million dollars in financing, raising the last $ 20.6 million in the A series in 2024. Jennings Kindo left in 2024 to the head of the product and research at Ai French Ai Mistral, according to its personal file LinkedIn.