OpenAI is reportedly moving away from its complicated non-profit structure next year

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OpenAI is reportedly moving away from its complicated non-profit structure next year

Sam Altman has told OpenAI staff members during their weekly meeting that the company is changing its rather convoluted non-profit corporate structure next year, according to

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. The CEO said OpenAI will move away from being controlled by a non-profit entity and will transition into a more traditional for-profit organization. He didn’t delve into the specifics of how the company will achieve that goal and what OpenAI’s corporate structure will look like exactly. A spokesperson only told Fortune that it ******** “focused on building AI that benefits everyone” and that non-profit is “core to [its] mission and will continue to exist.”

OpenAI started as a non-profit organization in 2015 that relied on money from donors. In a page

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, it said that it only raised $130.5 million in total donations over the years, which it says made it clear that “donations alone would not scale with the cost of computational power and talent required to push [its] core research forward.” The then-purely non-profit organization created a for-profit subsidiary in order to solve that problem. As Fortune explains, OpenAI’s non-profit entity currently controls its for-profit arm, which in turn controls a holding company that takes investments from companies like

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Under this structure, the profit that can be allocated to investors, including

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, has a cap. Anything OpenAI makes beyond the cap will go to its non-profit division. And the company’s revenue is booming, according to a report by

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published in June. OpenAI reportedly doubled its annualized revenue in the first half of the year, thanks to the subscription version of ChatGPT.

The company’s complex structure also allowed OpenAI’s non-profit board of directors to oust Altman in 2023, because they “no longer [have] confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.” Five days later, however, the board was disbanded and replaced, while Altman was reinstated as CEO.

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