The San Francisco 49ers announced that OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor has acquired a minority stake in the team, joining other tech titans that have bought into the club.
According to the team, the deal was approved by the NFL at Wednesday's league meeting.
Taylor, who chairs the company perhaps best known for ChatGPT, is also a co-founder of Sierra, a startup developing AI agents for companies. He has been involved in the technology industry since 2003 and has held numerous senior roles, including co-CEO at Salesforce, chief tech officer at Facebook and chairman at Twitter.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Taylor is a graduate of Stanford University. In a team statement, Taylor said he was a fan of the team for as long as he could remember.
"Some of my earliest memories are of iconic mom

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