The announcement

OpenAI launches artificial intelligence-based job platform, challenge to LinkedIn

Sam Altman-led company launches AI recruitment and training platform

9 September 2025

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SAM ALTMAN, AMMINISTRATORE DELEGATO DI OPEN AI

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We have heard it for a long time and today we see it happening: artificial intelligence has broken into the labour market and changed the balance.

This year, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that 30 per cent of the code developed by the company is produced by AI. Shortly afterwards, nine thousand employees were laid off as the resources allocated to AI increased. In the same vein, the number one of the e-commerce platform Shopify declared that no more workers will be hired for tasks that an algorithm can perform. According to Fortune, by 2025 in the US alone, AI-driven automation caused the loss of ten thousand jobs.

In such a context, OpenAI, a leader in developing the models that fuelled this process, recognised the disruptive potential of AI and now aims to convert it into new opportunities.

The new OpenAI platforms

In its blogpost, the company presented two initiatives under development: OpenAI Jobs Platform and OpenAI Certifications. These are dedicated job matching and training platforms that aim to disseminate AI skills and facilitate the matching of supply and demand. "We cannot eliminate the disruptive potential of technology. But what we can do is help more people become AI experts and connect them with companies that need their skills," reads the note signed by the Ceo of Applications Fidji Simo. The company founded by Sam Altman thus aims to offer a new channel to the labour market, with a solution designed to meet the challenges of the future.

Artificial intelligence is transforming the very structure of work, forcing rapid adaptation to tools that already belong to the present. Difficulties arise as much for jobseekers in an increasingly competitive market as for companies struggling to identify the right profile. Skills such as prompt engineering may soon become a widespread and transversal requirement, just as Microsoft Office has been in the past.

For OpenAI, which insists on the positive potential of technological progress, this transformation becomes a great opportunity. In collaboration with partners such as Walmart, John Deere, Accenture, but also institutions such as the Delaware governor's office, the San Francisco-based big tech aims to build a network capable of connecting different worlds and exploiting the possibilities offered by AI to the full.

In this scheme, OpenAI Certifications aims to guarantee the validity of the courses already started with the launch of OpenAI Academy. The company assures that the programmes of the new platform will be developed taking into account the limitations of previous experiences and will offer different levels of training and certification.

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The unknowns and links with politics

It remains to be seen how other professional training and networking players will react: it is hard to imagine that a player like Linkedin, which already integrates AI functions into its services, will stand idly by. The artificial intelligence giant's new platform seems destined to clash with the social network of professionals par excellence, founded among others by Reid Hoffman, one of the first investors also of OpenAI. To intertwine the affair even more, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, the main backer of OpenAI itself.

The new projects were announced in conjunction with a meeting at the White House where President Trump summoned the heads of major tech companies, including Bill Gates, Tim Cook and Sam Altman. It is therefore not surprising that OpenAI's message also includes a reference to the US administration's efforts to promote the use of artificial intelligence. A reference that underlines the convergences between the technology sector and the priorities of Trump, described by Altman as a 'pro-business' and 'pro-innovation' president.