# OpenAI

Develops AI models and partners with data owners to assemble public and private training datasets.

- Website: https://openai.com/
- Category: Data buyer
- Type: Foundation model developer
- Capabilities: Data licensing, Multimodal
- Reviewed: 2026-09-09

## Overview

OpenAI's Data Partnerships program, announced in November 2023, invites organizations to help build datasets for AI training. It describes both open datasets and private datasets intended for training proprietary models.

## Data it seeks

The announcement identifies text, images, audio, and video, with particular interest in material that represents human intent across subjects, languages, cultures, and industries. OpenAI says it can help partners digitize and structure their data.

## Working with OpenAI

Data owners can use the [partnership interest form](https://openai.com/form/data-partnerships/) to describe their material. This is an expression of interest; the program announcement does not publish standard prices or guarantee a paid purchase. The private-dataset option concerns model training, rather than a public dataset release.

## Sources & references

- [OpenAI Data Partnerships](https://openai.com/index/data-partnerships/)
- [Data partnership interest form](https://openai.com/form/data-partnerships/)