Whisper
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A to Z
- A · App
- No
- B · Built By
- OpenAI
- C · CEO & Politics
- Sam Altman — Independent; self-described 'politically homeless' (2025); former Democratic donor; $1M personal donation to Trump inaugural fund (2025)
- D · Date
- 2022
- E · Expertise
- Intermediate+
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud + Local (open weights)
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Sam Altman (CEO), Greg Brockman (President), Jakub Pachocki (Chief Scientist)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Speech Recognition
- N · Safety Issues
- Hallucinations in transcription (fabricated text in silence).
- O · Open Source
- Yes — open weights
- P · Pricing
- Free (open weights, MIT); OpenAI API $0.006/min (deprecated; shutdown Feb 26, 2027)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 6/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 6/10 · Currency 6/10 · Access 5/10 · Significance 9/10 → 6.30
- R · What Makes It Special
- OpenAI's Whisper (September 21, 2022), an open-source speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual web audio, about a third non-English, that approaches human-level robustness and accuracy on English; it handles language identification, phrase-level timestamps, multilingual transcription and translation into English, making 50% fewer errors than LibriSpeech-specialized models across diverse datasets. The whisper-1 API ($0.006 a minute) closes February 26, 2027.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private (~$852B valuation, Mar 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- Downloadable
- X · X Handle
- @OpenAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Open-weights Speech Recognition from OpenAI, released 2022.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-06-11 · Primary source ↗
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“Whisper.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-06-11. https://theaidatabase.com/m/openai-whisper.html
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