Openai said on Monday that the structural company was restructured as a company of general interest, allowing the non -profit organization that controls Openai by keeping its handle on the company.
The decision is a victory for Openai critics, including one of its founders, Elon Musk, who complained that the company was focusing greatly on profits and gave up its early plan to build artificial intelligence systems taking into account safety in everything.
The changes announced on Monday are the latest in years of institutional drama of what many consider the most influential intelligence company in the world. Openai’s Chatgpt, which was released in late 2022, achieved night success that sent the rest of the technology industry. Within just a few years, the largest TECH company spent billions of dollars in its artificial intelligence projects, with hundreds of billions planned for this contract.
Mr. Musk, who is now running his artificial intelligence company, File a suit on Openai on plans She was putting in place to change the company’s structure from an unconventional system that gave non -profit supervision to a profit company. But he was not the only critic of the planned changes. California general lawyers, its headquarters, and in Delaware, where they were lawful, said they also said they were monitoring its restructuring. The California Prosecutor’s Office, Rob Punta, said in a statement that he was reviewing the new Openai’s plan.
In recent weeks, a number of academics from the legal community and experts such as Jeffrey Hunton, who won the Nobel Prize last year, have expressed his leading artificial intelligence research, publicly concerned about Openai.
The argument on how to organize Openai and what its priorities should be a basic question about artificial intelligence: Should researchers be rushed to develop new and stronger artificial intelligence systems? Or should it notify the theoretical risks that artificial intelligence of humanity provides everything that these researchers create?
Openai began in 2015 with this tension into consideration.
Sam -German, CEO of Openai, created the Organization of Artificial Intelligence with many other Silicon Valley personalities as a non -profit organization in late 2015. In 2018, after Mr. Musk left in power struggle, Mr. Altman attached Openai to a profitable company so that he could raise the billions of dollars needed to build AI technologies.
But non -profit organizations kept their grip in a structure that some saw it was the pattern for the growth of the company. Last year, Mr. Tamman and his company began working on him A plan to convert control from non -profit organizations to Openai investorsSo that it is more attractive to them.
Soon after, Mr. Musk made a lawsuit against Openai, Mr. Altman and another founder, Greg Brockman, in the Federal Court, claiming that they were putting the commercial interests of the company and AI before the public good.
This year, Mr. Musk and the Union of Investors as well I was offered to buy The assets of non -profit organizations control Openai for more than $ 97 billion. Openai Board of Directors rejected the offer.
Now the company has significantly retracted the control plan away from the non -profit. It is not clear whether the new structure, which allows non -profit organizations to be the largest contributor to Openai, will affect Mr. Musk’s suit.
The General Avenues Company is often described as an organization designed to establish a public and social commodity and allow foreigners to invest in the same way they invest in other companies.
“I am very happy that we have made a decision of the non -profit organization to maintain control,” Mr. German said during a press conference. He added that the new change “puts us to get a more understanding structure to do the things that the company must do.”
Openai said that he is still negotiating a non -profit share in the new company and that non -profit organizations will choose the members of the Board of Directors in the new entity.
Gil t said. Horowitz, a law professor at North Westren University who specializes in non -profit organizations: “I am grateful because the Board of Directors seems to have worked with the organizers and that non -profit organizations will maintain control.” “But we do not know what to control it yet.”
The Japanese company Softbank recently led a $ 40 billion financing round in Openai, estimated at $ 300 billion. If this shift is not completed by the end of the year, Softbank will have the option to reduce its total contribution to $ 20 billion. The latest investment deal.
Mr. Al -Taman said that he is confident that funding would not be reduced.
“We have made a decision to retain the control of non -profit organizations in Openai after listening to civilian leaders and participating in a constructive dialogue with the public prosecutor in Dillauir and the General Attorney of California,” Brett Taylor said in a statement.
(New York Times prosecution Openai and her partner, Microsoft, accused of violating copyright in terms of news content related to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft denied these claims.)
