Altman himself, the general director of Opeli, is visible by glass, during the event off the beaten track of the Artificial Intelligence Action in Paris in France, February 11, 2025.
Aurelien Morissard By Reuters
OpenAi bowed to pressure from civic leaders and former employers, announcing in Blog post On Monday, that its non -profit organization will maintain control over the company, even if she restructures the public corporation of benefits.
A company that is supported by Microsoft And recently it has been priced at $ 300 billion in Funding round Leaded by Softbank, he said that he made a decision after discussing the case with the Prosecutor General of California and Delaware.
“We are considering the structure, non-profit will remain under the control of OPENAI,” said Bret Taylor, president of the management board of Opeli in a video conversation with reporters. “We will transform a limited liability company, which is a subsidiary of this non-profit organization into a company to public benefits. In this way, this will change the structure of the company's own capital, so that employees, investors and profit may have own capital in this PBC.”
Taylor said OpenAi ordered external financial advisers to consult a summary. He refused to share how much a non -profit organization would have participated in the company, although it would be the majority.
The president of Opeli, Altman himself, said about calling that “he was very happy that the Non -Profit and PBC organization would have the same mission.” He said that the management and stakeholders agreed with the decision.
Openai is currently absorbed in a hot legal fight Elon Muskwho was a co-founder of the group as a non-profit research laboratory in 2015. Musk is trying to stop Opeli from transforming into a profit -oriented company because it competes on the generative market with its own startup XAI.
Altman was asked about the dispute on Monday.
“We are obsessed with our mission and what you need to fulfill it,” he said. “Everyone is obsessed with Elon, it's your job – for example, more power for you. But we're here to think about our mission and find out how to turn it on. And this mission has not changed.”
Openai, run by Altman in recent years, has commercialized products, in particular the viral chatgpt chatbot, which was released at the end of 2022. The company is still supervised by a non-profit parent and has stood in the face of significant obstacles to restructure profit, largely due to Musk. A group run by musk offered To buy OpenAI in February for $ 97.4 billion, the offer is quickly rejected.
The hybrid structure of OPENAI included a limited company with limited profits, which was created in 2019. The original non-profit organization is a controlling shareholder and would be thrown as an independent entity if OpenAi referred to his efforts. Since this change is no longer there, Openai investors receive replacement banknotes that will turn into their own capital.
A group of former employees, Nobel Prize winners, professors of law and civil society organizations He sent a letter Last month, to the General Prosecutors in California and Delaware, asking to stop the restructuring activities of startup with security problems.
In a letter that was delivered to the OPENAI board, the group wrote that restructuring for the entity focused on profit “overthrew the charity goals of OpenAI” and “removes non-profit control and eliminate critical management security.”
Hedley's side, former Openai policy and ethics advisor – and the main organizer Not for private profitA group that wrote a letter – she said in a statement that although this is a positive step, that the company listens to fears, “key questions remain.” One thing is whether the commercial goals of OpenAI “will continue to be legally subordinated to her charity mission”, and the other is: “Who will be the owner of the technology that Openai develops?” He said Hedley, who is the main organizer of the group who wrote the letter.
Taylor said on a conversation with reporters that the current OpenAI structure includes Non -Profit and a subsidiary, but the Non -Profit Council is really the only managing body. Taylor shared what he called the “technical detail” about the makeup of the management board after restructuring
There will be a separate management board for Public Benefit Corporation, but the non -profit organization will designate these directors, and “we plan to have the same directors for both on the first day,” said Taylor.
“From the point of view of management, the mission is the most important, because the non-profit board is only for this mission,” said Taylor. He said it was “one of the main feedback” from recent conversations.
In a letter to employees, which was part of Monday's blog post, Altman said that Opennai remains involved in ensuring artificial general intelligence (Aga), which competes or exceeds human intelligence, “brings the benefits of all humanity.” But a lot has changed in nine years since he co -founded the laboratory, he said.
“When we started Opeli, we didn't make a detailed sense how we intend to accomplish our mission,” Altman wrote. “We could not consider the direct benefits of using AI for medical advice, science, efficiency and many others, nor the needs of hundreds of billions of computing dollars to train models and user service.”
Altman said that Opeli may still need a trillion dollars for the resources necessary to “provide our services of all humanity.”
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