Openi said on Monday that it was restructuring as a public benefit corporation, which allows a non -profit organization that controls Openai to maintain its adhesion of society.
The non -profit organization will be the largest shareholder of Openi.
Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, created an Artificial Intelligence with several other characters in Silicon Valley, including Elon Musk, as a non -profit organization at the end of 2015.
However, the non -profit organization retained its adhesion in what became an unorthodox structure that some saw as Albatros to grow society. Last year, Mr. Altman and his company began to work on the plan to move control from the non -profit organization to OpenAi investors to make it more attractive to investors.
However, the company has retreated from this plan and the non -profit organization will now maintain control. The decision is the victory for Openai critics, including Mr. Musk, who stated that the company was too focused on profits and left its early plan to build AI systems with regard to security.
The public advantage is often described as an organization designed to create public and social good and allows outsiders to invest in almost the same way they invest in other companies.
“I am very glad that we decided to maintain control for the non -profit organization,” Altman said during the press briefing. He added that the new change “prepares us to have a more understandable structure so that we can do things that society like ours must do.”
Openai said that it was still negotiating the share of the non -profit organization in the new corporation and that the non -profit organization would choose members of the Board of Directors of the new corporation.
The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank recently led a $ 40 billion funding in Openi, which appreciates the company at $ 300 billion. If this shift is not completed by the end of the year, SoftBank will have the opportunity to reduce its total contribution to $ 20 billion, the person who is familiar with the latest investment agreement said.
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