OpenAI also recently announced its first overseas expansion, saying that it plans to open an office in London.
Seattle-based SKB Architects, which has worked with Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group, also contributed to the design. The office was designed by Bay Area-based architecture firm Eaton Hall Architecture, which has designed offices for Tesla and commercial kitchen spaces for Travis Kalanick's startup, Cloud Kitchens.
He noted that the design featured glass walls and natural wood structural elements. "It's an impressive space," said Peter Eisenbeiser, a city official who performed the final inspection of the 1960 Bryant Street space. They might then make their way through the "walk in the park" area which, according to the plans, is shaded by live indoor trees and flanked by a recording studio, interview rooms, and a kitchen area. 575 Florida Street is classified for planning purposes as a laboratory.Īccording to person who visited the space, a visitor entering through the courtyard would be confronted by a reception desk made of live-edge burl wood. OpenAI is leasing the two spaces and in late 2022 filed documents with the city to reclassify 1960 Bryant Street from a "light manufacturing" space to an "arts activity" space. The plans also include sixteen "AI Studios" as well as "flex labs", conference rooms, and an event space with room for a 20-foot projection screen. The company, which was formerly housed in the historic Pioneer Building in San Francisco's Mission District, has since moved down the street into a four story, 59,000 square foot office space created by combining buildings at 575 Florida Street and 1960 Bryant Street.Īccording to the documents, the office seems to include amenities you might expect from a Silicon Valley tech unicorn including open office space, nap rooms, micro kitchens, lounges for viewing both the sunrise and the sunset, and a multi-million dollar library with vaulted ceilings that spans the 2nd and 3rd floors. In February, OpenAI put the finishing touches on a lavish $11 million renovation and expansion of its new headquarters, according to the documents. A reporter for Insider was even less successful, turned away by a security guard on an intercom who refused even to confirm or deny the existence of an OpenAI office at the location.īut we may now have some hints about what it's like inside the offices of the world's most famous AI company, thanks to architectural plans and planning documents viewed by Insider. A reporter for The San Francisco Standard attempted to visit the offices and made it as far as the lobby before being escorted out. But the company has kept details about its San Francisco headquarters a closely guarded secret. It's only fitting then that OpenAI should have a headquarters befitting its status as the vanguard of new AI revolution. Open AI has been having a good year: the company secured a $10 billion investment from Microsoft, completed a $495 million share sale valuing the company at more than $27 billion, and its ChatGPT large language model has captured the imagination of the world.
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