Openi said on Monday that he was renovating as a public benefits company, allowing non -profit that controls Openi to keep his grip on the company.
The decision is a victory for Openi's critics, including one of its founders, Elon Musk, who complained of the fact that the company was too concentrated on profits and had abandoned its close -ups to build artificial intelligence systems thinking about safety.
The changes announced on Monday are the latest news of company dramas for what many consider the most influential artificial intelligence company in the world. The chatbot of Openi Chatgpt, released at the end of 2022, was a success during the night that sent the rest of the technological industry. In a few years, the largest Tech companies have spent billions for their artificial intelligence projects, with hundreds of billions more planned for this decade.
Musk, who now manages his artificial intelligence company, has sued Openni for the plans he was taking place to change his company structure from a non -orthodox system that has given a non -profit supervision of a profit for profit. But it was not the only critic of the planned changes in Openai. General lawyers in California, where Openi has his headquarters and in Delaware, where he was created legally, he also said to monitor his renovation. The office of the Prosecutor General of California, Rob Bonta, declared in a declaration that was examining the new Plan of Openi.
And in the last few weeks, a number of academics of the legal community and experts such as Geoffrey Hinton, who last year won a Nobel Prize for his search for Ai Pionieristica, also expressed concern for the management of Openai.
The topic on how Openi should be structured and what his priorities should be done at home on a fundamental question about artificial intelligence: should researchers hurry up to develop new and powerful artificial intelligence systems? Or the theoretical risk that IA presents to humanity to inform everything that those researchers create?
Openi was started in 2015 taking into account that tension.
Sam Altman, CEO of Openi, created the organization of artificial intelligence with several other Figures of Silicon Valley as a non -profit organization at the end of 2015. In 2018, after Musk started in a power struggle, Altman attacked Openai to a profit for profit so that he can breed the billions of dollars needed to build AI technologies.
But the non -profit has maintained its grip in a structure that some have seen as an albatro to the growth of the company. Last year, Mr. Altman and his company started working on a plan to move control from non -profit to Openi investors, so that he was more attractive for them.
Shortly after, Musk sued Openii, Altman and another founder, Greg Brockman, in Federal Court, claiming that they were putting the commercial interests of the company and in front of the public good.
This year, Mr. Musk and a consortium of investors have also offered to buy the non -profit activities that controls Openi for over $ 97 billion. The Board of Directors of Openi rejected the offer.
Now the company has been significantly performed by the plan to move control from non -profit. It is not clear whether the new structure, which allows the non -profit to be the major shareholder of Openi, will influence the cause of Mr. Musk.
A company of public benefits is often described as an organization designed to create public and social good and allows strangers to invest more or less the same way in which they invest in other companies.
“I am very happy that we made the decision for the non -profit of maintaining control,” Altman said during a press conference. He added that the new change “prepares us to have a more understandable structure to do the things that a company like ours must do”.
Openai said that he was still negotiating the participation of non -profit in the new company and that non -profit would have chosen the members of the Council of the new entity.
“I am gratified by the fact that the Board of Directors seem to have worked with the regulators and that the non -profit will keep control,” said Jill R. Horwitz, professor of law at Northwestern University, specialized in non -profit organizations. “But we still don't know what control means.”
The Japanese softbank conglomerate has recently conducted a financing round of $ 40 billion in Openi who appreciates the company to $ 300 billion. If this round is not completed by the end of the year, SoftBank will have the opportunity to reduce his total contribution to $ 20 billion, said a person who is familiar with the latest investment agreement.
Altman said he was confident that the loan would not be reduced.
“We made the decision for the non -profit from keeping Openi's control after listening to the civic leaders and committing ourselves to constructive dialogues with the operations of the prosecutor General of Delaware and the Prosecutor General of California,” said the president of Openi, Bret Taylor, in a note.
(The New York Times sued Openi and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright violation regarding the contents of news relating to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft have denied these statements.)