The newly proposed structure keeps the organization for non -profit in control, although Monday's blog post was not in detail what it will be like exactly. The company said that its current profit -for -profit subsidiary will become a public service company (PBC), namely how its competitors Anthropic and Xai are set up. PBCs are legally authorized to prioritize both the interests of shareholders and societal.
“The non -profit organization will control and will also be a large shareholder of the CBC, offering the non -profit organization of better resources to support many advantages,” said Openai's blog. “Our mission remains the same, and the PBC will have the same mission.”
The general prosecutor of Delaware, Kathy Jennings, said in a cable press release that she was encouraged by Openai taking into account her concerns and allowing the non -profit organization to keep her control. “Now that the company has a new plan, I intend to review it to be respecting the law of Delaware by ensuring that it agrees with the objective of Openai and that the non -profit entity retains an appropriate control over the for -profit entity,” said Jennings.
California's prosecutor's office, Rob Bonta, did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Robert Weissman, co -president of Public Citizen, who pleads against major companies and has long criticized the structure of Openai, says that the startup's plans continue to be unsatisfactory. There does not seem to be new limits to guarantee that the for-profit purpose adheres to the non-profit mission of OpenAi to benefit all humanity with powerful IA tools, he says. “This leaves us where we are, which is with a non -profit organization allegedly controlling a goal for lucrative but does not exercise any visible restraint on the for -profit goal,” Weissman told Wired.
Openai's plans provide that its new non -profit organization has actions of the corporation of benefits. A recent financing tower has put an OpenAi assessment at $ 300 billion, so these actions could be extremely lucrative because the non -profit organization sells or borrows against them. California philanthropic activists asked for The non -profit organization to obtain a “fair value” of action, which could lead it to become the most funded foundation ever created. They also want the non -profit organization to be independent of the company, so that commercial interests do not corrupt philanthropic gifts. Monday, activists renewed their call to Bonta to examine closely if the plans of Openai will carry out this separation.
“Openai is not a normal company and will never be,” Altman wrote in an e-mail to the employees that was included in the announcement of the company.
