The reorganization also allows Open to remove the cap on the return of investors, which could potentially appeal to the firm for venture investors, the non -profit arm continues to exist, but rather than controlling governance as only a minority stakeholder. This project came as a company Summoned A funding round that its value is $ 150 billion, which later spread to $ 300 billion in a $ 40 billion round.
However, the new change in the course is after months of increasing pressure from outside the company. In April, a group of legal scholars, AI researchers, and tech industry watchdogs Openly opposed Open reorganization plans, California and Delaware’s lawyers are sending letters to the general.
Former Open A employees, Nobel Laureate, and Law Professors Sent letter State officials request that they prevent reorganization efforts from security concerns about which part of the company will control the future AI products.
He added, “Open was established as a non -profit, today a non -profit that monitors and controls profitable, and moving forward will keep a non -profit that carries and controls profitable.” “It will not change.”
The uncertainty of ahead
By abandoning the reorganization that will eliminate the non -profit control, the openness still plans to make significant changes to its corporate structure. “Under the non -profit, the profitable LLC will be transferred to the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) with the same mission.” “Instead of our current complex capacity profit structure-it realized that when it could be a dominant AGI effort but many big AGI companies are not in the world-we are moving towards a common capital structure where everyone has a storage. It is not a sale, but a change of the structure of something easy.”
But the project could create some uncertainty for the open financial future. When Openi Unharmed In March, a large -scale funding round of $ 40 billion came with it, with a wire associated with it: the Japanese party Softbank, which committed $ 30 billion, has stipulated that if Openi fails to reorganize the full profitable company by the end of 2025, it will reduce its contribution to $ 20 billion.
Despite the challenges coming forward, the Altman expressed confidence in the path forward: “We believe that it gives us the opportunity to continue fast, safe progress and put a great AI in the hands of everyone.”