OpenAI says its nonprofit board will remain in control of its for-profit business
Chatgpt Maker Openai said on Monday that his non -profit organization will remain in control of her for -profit activity, while the startup is advancing with plans to change its organizational structure.
This decision comes after a coalition of non -profit organizations, Californian foundations and working groups called the State Prosecutor General to investigate the OpenAi decision to transmit the commercial subsidiary of his non -profit organization to a public profit company. The coalition has raised concerns about the protection of OPENAI charity assets.
“We have made the decision of the non -profit association to keep control after hearing civic leaders and had discussions with the offices of the California and Delaware general prosecutors,” wrote Managing Director Sam Altman in a letter to Openai employees.
Openai started in 2015 as a non-profit research laboratory, but then managed to develop products and services like Chatgpt and text-to-Video Tool Sora. While competition between IA companies has warmed, Openai said that it had to change its structure to collect more money. The startup recently collected $ 40 billion, assessing $ 300 billion, but part of this funding could change if it does not change its business structure by the end of the year.
Openai has received a decline on its Meta transition plans and certain philanthropic leaders, notably the San Francisco Foundation, which has raised concerns with the Office of the Attorney General of the State. The company was also continued by its co-founder Elon Musk.
The San Francisco Foundation said on Monday that it continued to support concerns about the transition from Openai.
“Although we are happy to see that Optai answers the questions that have been raised about their proposed restructuring, its announcement today does not solve the fundamental problem in question: the independence of the profit research of non -profit OpenAi,” said Fred Blackwell, CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, in a press release.
Last month, Openai appointed non -profit commissioners, including the Labor Leader Dolores Huerta, to help his non -profit organization to amplify his philanthropic efforts.
Openai said that she would make her planned social societies planned in a continuous conversation with his Microsoft investor, civic leaders, the prosecutors’ offices in California and Delaware and non -profit commissioners.
The announcement brings a clarity to the original plans of the company he described in December, in which she declared that the public services company “would manage and control the operations and affairs of Openai”.
On Monday, Altman said that the non -profit board of directors would become a “big shareholder” in the corporation of benefits “of an amount supported by independent financial advisers, giving non -profit resources to support programs so that AI can benefit many different communities, in accordance with the mission.”
Altman expressed his commitment to the non -profit organization in OpenAi who continues to control the profit activity as she does today. “It won’t change,” he wrote.
The other AI startups that are structured as public benefits companies include Anthropic and Musk’s XAI.
