Building a listed tool
Ian Kivlichan
Safety researcher; credited Moderation model contributor, named behind the OpenAI Moderation API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ian builds
OpenAI Moderation API BB · Guardrails & safety filters
Free classifier endpoint that scores text and images against 13 harm categories (harassment, hate, illicit, self-harm, sexual, violence and their sub-types) and returns a flagged boolean plus per-category scores.
Safety researcher; credited Moderation model contributor, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Andrej Karpathy Co-founder, OpenAI
- Durk Kingma Co-founder, OpenAI
- Elon Musk Co-founder, OpenAI
- Greg Brockman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Hannah Koch Product Manager, Codex
- Ilya Sutskever Co-founder, OpenAI
- John Hallman Credited gpt-oss contributor; post-training researcher
- John Schulman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Justin Beckwith OpenAI engineering leader; Guardrails repository contributor
- Justin Uberti Head of Realtime AI; Member of Technical Staff
- Nikunj Handa Head of Product, OpenAI API
- Pamela Vagata Co-founder, OpenAI
- Rennie Song Member of Technical Staff; Dots engineer
- Sam Altman Co-founder, OpenAI
- Trevor Blackwell Co-founder, OpenAI
- Vicki Cheung Co-founder, OpenAI
- Wojciech Zaremba Co-founder, OpenAI
Backed by
SoftBank Thrive Capital Microsoft NVIDIA Altimeter Capital Coatue Khosla Ventures Fidelity Investments MGX Tiger Global
Questions
Who is Ian Kivlichan?
Ian Kivlichan is safety researcher; credited Moderation model contributor.
What does OpenAI make?
Anchor Terminal lists OpenAI Moderation API from OpenAI. Free classifier endpoint that scores text and images against 13 harm categories (harassment, hate, illicit, self-harm, sexual, violence and their sub-types) and returns a flagged boolean plus per-category scores.
Who has invested in OpenAI?
The sources our research read name SoftBank, Thrive Capital, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Altimeter Capital, Coatue, Khosla Ventures, Fidelity Investments, MGX and Tiger Global.
How are Ian's tools graded?
OpenAI Moderation API is graded BB, 71.4 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://openai.com/index/upgrading-the-moderation-api-with-our-new-multimodal-moderation-model/
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-kivlichan/
- https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
- https://x.com/sama/with_replies?lang=en
- https://x.com/gdb/with_replies
- https://x.com/ilyasut/with_replies
- https://x.com/woj_zaremba/with_replies
- https://openai.com/
- https://developers.openai.com/
- https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6614161-how-can-i-contact-support
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