NEW YORK —ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a non-profit — an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.
OpenAI was founded as a non-profit in 2015 and has since switched to a “capped” for-profit enterprise allowing for a limited level of money making.
But it has been seeking to become a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), which could attract more investment.
In a blog post, the company said it plans to restructure as a PBC, which “requires the company to balance shareholder interests, stakeholder interests, and a public benefit interest in its decision making.”
“It will enable us to raise the necessary capital with conventional terms like others in this space,” OpenAI added.
It said that it needs to raise more capital than imagined, citing the hundreds and billions of dollars that major firms are now putting into artificial intelligence development.
“Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness,” OpenAI said according to AFP.
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