Months after publicly declaring his intention to shake his corporate structure, OpenAI has reversed the course and has decided that his non -profit arm will continue to control his profit for profit.
According to an Operai blog post published on Monday, the company’s board of directors decided that OpenI will continually depend on the supervision and control of its non -profit division in the future.
“OpenAI was founded as a non -profit organization, and today is supervised and controlled by that non -profit organization,” wrote the president of the Board of OpenAI, Bret Taylor, in the publication of the blog. “In the future, it will continually be supervised and controlled by that non -profit organization.”
The company’s LLC for the company, which has lived under the non -profit organization since 2019 and will continue to do so, will become a public benefits corporation (PBC). A PBC is a profitable business that must consider the public good in addition to the profits in its decisions. Openai’s non -profit division will control and will be the largest shareholder in the PBC.
“Our mission remains the same,” Taylor said. OpenAi’s mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity.”
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In December, Operai publicly indicated in a blog post that he was thinking of making his PBC for profit, but had complete control over Openai’s operations and businesses. The non -profit side would not supervise the for profit, but would be in charge of beneficial initiatives.
Taylor wrote on Monday that Openi decided to reverse the course and make the non -profit organization retain control over the profit for profit after talking with civic leaders and with the crimes of the Attorney General of Delaware and the Attorney General of California.
More than 30 civic leaders, former Operai employees and Nobel Awards delivered letters to the offices of general prosecutors last month to ask for OpenAI’s effort to separate from their non -profit government.
CEO of Operai Sam Altman. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg through Getty Images
Operai has recently wrapped in a legal battle with Elon Musk, who helped co -confound the company and went to early 2018 after a failed bet to take care. Since then, Musk has filed demands against OpenAi and his CEO, Sam Altman, accusing them of breaking the OpenAi Foundation Agreement and work to maximize profits for Microsoft instead of humanity as a whole. Microsoft has invested about $ 14 billion in Openai.
Musk Een took an unreasonable Sacrimis to buy OpenAi for $ 97.4 billion in February, which Altman quickly rejected in X. At the time of publication, Musk had not yet commented.
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Operai began as a non -profit organization in 2015 and made the transition to a “limited earnings” company in 2019, which means that the company’s profits were limited to a certain amount, with an excess of profits granted to the non -profit matrix organization. The profit with profit raised $ 1 billion of Microsoft in 2019, along with an initial fundraising round of $ 100 million.
In November 2022, OpenI launched its AI chatbot chatbot, which was used by 500 million global weekly users such as or March, compared to 400 million in February.
OpenAI closed a financing round of $ 40 billion in March, the largest private technology agreement in history, which valued the company at $ 300 billion.