OpenAI, a leading provider of artificial intelligence, will soon have a presence in Dublin, according to an announcement made by the Microsoft (MSFT.O)-backed business on Thursday.
This is the third office that the firm has. It has announced that it will build an office in London in June. The company’s headquarters are located in San Francisco.
Although OpenAI’s chief strategy officer Jason Kwon said that the business plans to offer additional posts in the not-too-distant future, the Dublin office is beginning on a modest scale, with nine available jobs across several departments.
Kwon has said that the Dublin office would not serve as the European headquarters of the firm and that there will not be an executive in charge of operating the office, at least not now.
“We like to grow deliberately and not too rapidly because we want to make sure that the culture of the company is established first in new offices before we scale up,” Kwon told Reuters. “We like to grow deliberately and not too rapidly because we want to make sure that the culture of the company is established in new offices.”
OpenAI is among the numerous American technology businesses operating in Dublin. According to Kwon, Ireland is an excellent location to interact with Europe from both a regulatory and business development aspect because not only does it have access to a talent pool that is already acquainted with the culture of firms like Meta (META.O) and Google (GOOGL.O), but it also has a talent pool that is already comfortable with the culture of companies like Meta.
Kwon said that since OpenAI does not generate a profit, the consequences of taxes did not play a part in the decision.
After Meta’s Threads app, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become the second-fastest user growth in the history of mobile applications. It has caused excitement and anxiety, putting OpenAI into confrontation with authorities, notably in Europe, where the company’s extensive data-collecting has garnered condemnation from privacy watchdogs. This dispute has brought OpenAI into the spotlight.

