The American technology company OpenAI, creator of the famous ChatGPIT, announced this Friday that it will partially replace for profit company To get more capital to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) services.
This is how the company will be transformed in 2025 public benefit corporation OpenAI indicated in a statement that (PBC), that is, is a for-profit entity, but at the same time it will pursue a social mission and operate in a sustainable manner.
Thus, the PBC will direct and control OpenAI’s operations and business, but will maintain a non-profit division with its own management team that will own shares in the company and be implemented. “Charitable initiatives in areas such as health, education and science.”
Last year, the board of directors – so far with an independent majority and without equity participation – attempted unsuccessfully to fire the company’s CEO, Sam Altman Which spread fear among some of its main investors like Microsoft.
Since then, Altman has been working on a structure change Of technology.
Watches and rings usher in offline smart devicesAccording to OpenAI, this model will allow you Balance shareholder interests and public benefit When making decisions, as well as in raising the capital needed to expand its linguistic model.
Other big technology companies like anthropic And xaiThose who compete directly with the entity also serve as PBCs.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars The fact that large companies are now investing in AI development shows exactly what is needed for OpenAI to continue fulfilling its mission. “We need to raise more capital than we anticipated,” the company said.
However, there could be problems turning the entity into a PBC: one of its founders, Elon Musk, submitted a proposal last month federal court To prevent it from becoming a profitable company.
OpenAI was Established in 2015 Funded as a non-profit company by donations of cash and computer credits (including $1.8 million). Amazon and 50 million or more Blue And google cloudAccording to the company).
However, the technology company highlighted that “over time, it became clear that the most advanced AI Will use more computing resources And scaling up to larger language models would require “a lot more computing and, therefore, a lot more capital”.
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