OpenAi da reverse in their plans to become a company for profitaccording to those responsible for the one considered as a business company business in the era of artificial intelligence, a research startup that in just a decade has become a giant valued at 300,000 million dollars.
Openai announced in the late 2024 important changes in its corporate structure. The idea was to become a profit company with the aim of growing and expand its operations, obtain more capital and develop AI programs as the monumental The Stargate Project, the largest world initiative for investment in AI infrastructure: 500,000 million dollars.
Many disagreed with this proposalincluding the multimillionaire and minister of Trump in the shadow, Elon Musk, one of Openai’s first investors, who filed a lawsuit against the company opposing the company’s planned transition. There were also criticisms of companies such as Meta, private organizations, trade union groups and a group formed by former company of the company.
Reverse in OpenAi
Before the controversy generated, those responsible for the emerging star of the AI have announced a change of course. «Openai was founded as a non -profit organization and is currently supervised and controlled by that organization … From now on, it will continue to be supervised and controlled by said organization«explained the president of the Board of Directors, Bret Taylor, in a statement published in the company’s blog.
Openai says he made the decision “After listening to the civic leaders and establishing a constructive dialogue with the offices of the Attorney General of Delaware and the Attorney General of California”. The reality is that they have not wanted to risk losing the investments committed to the potential judicial block of the initiative.
As for OpenAi’s commercial branchwhich belongs to the non -profit organization since 2019, will become a Public Benefit Corporation (CBP), a type of company of US legislation that exists explicitly to generate profits and at the same time benefit society in some way. The non -profit organization will control and will be an important Shareholder of the CBP.
The changes in the business structural of OpenAI and the majority control by the non -profit organization It is relevant taking into account the current importance of its AI technologies and the use they make of them third companies, Microsoft as the most important. In an open letter to employees, CEO Sam Altman said he hopes to achieve three goals with this river change: «Allow the company to attract new investments; create the largest and most effective profit organization in history and offer beneficial general artificial intelligence ».
