Openai says non -profit support for the company, bowing pressure

Openai leaned toward pressure from civil leaders and former staff, announcing in Message in the blog On Monday, its non -profit organization will retain control of the company, even if it is rebuilt into the corporation of public benefit.

The company that is supported Microsoft and recently estimated at $ 300 billion in Round of funding The SoftBank, led by SoftBank, said she had made the decision after discussing the issue with the California General and Delaware General.

“With the structure we think, the non-profit organization will remain under the control of Openai,” Brett Taylor, chairman of the Openai Board, said. “We will convert the limited liability company, which is a subsidiary of this non -profit organization into a public benefit corporation. So, it will change the capital structure of this company so that employees, investors and non -commercial organizations may possess justice in this PBC.”

Taylor said Openai ordered the financial advisors to consult a recipe. He refused to share how much stock will be a non -profit organization in the company, although it would be most.

Openai CEO Sam Altman said “very glad that the non -profit organization and PBC will have the same mission.” He said the council and the interested parties agreed with this decision.

Openai is currently covered in a hot legal battle with Elon MuskWhich in 2015 founded the group as a non-profit research laboratory. Musk tries to avoid the transformation of Openai into a non -profit company when it competes on the generative AI market with its XAI launch.

Altman was asked about the dispute on Monday.

“We are obsessed with our mission and what we need to do it,” he said. “You are all obsessed with Elon, this is your work – for example, for you more strength. But we are here to think about our mission and find out how to include it. And this mission has not changed.”

Leaded by Altman, Openai in recent years commercializes products, primarily its viral chat, which was launched at the end of 2022. The campaign is still controlled by non-profit parents and has faced significant obstacles in its goal of restructuring, which is largely Muska. A group led by a musk proposed To buy Openai in February for $ 97.4 billion, an application that was quickly rejected.

The Openai Hybrid structure included a limited income partnership that was created in 2019. The initial non -profit organization is a control shareholder, and it would be completed as an independent person if Openai succeeded in its efforts. With this change is no longer happening, investors Openai receive convertibles that turn property.

Group of ex-Openi employees, Nobel laureates, legal sciences and civil society organizations sent the letter Last month, General Lawyer in California and Delaware asking for an effort to restructure the launch of safety problems.

In a letter that was taken to the Openai Council, the group wrote that perestroika to the non -profit organization “undermines the Openai charity” and “remove non -profit control and exclude critical management management.”

Hedley Page, a former advisor on policy and ethics Openai – and lead organizer Not for private profitThe group that wrote the letter – said in a statement that, although this is a positive step that the company listens to the problems, “important issues remain.” One of them – will the Openai commercial goals “still be legally subordinated to their charity mission” and the other “who will possess the technology developed by Openai?” Said Hedley, who is the leading organizer of the group who wrote the letter.

Taylor stated that a call with journalists that the current Openai structure includes a non -profit council and a subsidiary, but the non -profit board is really the only governing body. Taylor shared what he called “technical detail” about the makeup of the board after the restructuring

There will be a separate advice for the Public Renefation corporation, but the non -profit organization will appoint these directors, and “on the first day we plan to have the same directors for both,” Taylor said.

“In terms of management, the mission goes first because the trust’s duty of the non-profit council is exclusively this mission,” Taylor said. He said it was one “one of the main feedback” from the last conversations.

In a letter to a blog on Monday, Altman said that Openai was still seeking to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI), which compensates or exceeds human exploration, “benefits all humanity.” But much has changed in nine years as he founded the laboratory, he said.

“When we started Openai, we didn’t have a detailed sense, as we were going to fulfill our mission,” Altman wrote. “We couldn’t consider direct benefits of the II used for medical advice, training, performance and more, or the needs of hundreds of billions of computing models and users.”

Altman said Openai may still need to attract trillions of dollars for the resources needed to “make our services widely accessible to all humanity.”

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