OpenAI: 2,761 jobs created

OpenAI grew from 770 to 3,531 employees by September 2024, a 4.6x increase in under a year, reportedly onboarding up to 50 new employees per week during peak hiring in technical and research roles. The company explicitly cited AI and automation as a primary driver of the workforce reduction. This hiring reflects the growing demand for AI talent in Artificial Intelligence, as companies race to build out their machine learning and AI infrastructure teams.