OpenAI says it needs more capital than we’d imagined as it lays out for-profit plan
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OpenAI said Friday that in moving toward a new for-profit structure in 2025, the company will create a public benefit corporation to oversee commercial operations, removing some of its nonprofit restrictions and allowing it to function more like a high-growth startup. OpenAI closed its latest $6.6 billion round in October, gearing up to aggressively compete with Elon Musks xAI as well as Microsoft , Google, Amazon and Anthropic in a market thats predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade. By transforming into a Delaware PBC "with ordinary shares of stock," OpenAI says it can pursue commercial operations, while separately hiring a staff for its nonprofit arm and allowing that wing to take on charitable activities in health care, education and science. In 2019, OpenAI aimed to move past its role as solely a research lab in hopes of functioning more like a startup, so it created a so-called capped-profit model, with the nonprofit still controlling the overall entity. In addition to its face-off with Musk, OpenAI has been dealing with an outflow of high-level talent, due in part to concerns that the company has focused on taking commercial products to market at the expense of safety.
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