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See: https://www.axios.com/2023/11/18/how-openai-board-is-structu... for the OpenAI Structure.

1) In order to fund research - this stuff costs 10s of billions of dollars - everyone, from Ilya, to Elon, to Sam - all agreed that they would require a profit-arm to raise money. Nobody was going to sponsor that 10s of billions of dollars to a non-profit.

2) The non profit is still there - and controls the commercial element.

parent ghshephard 5 months ago

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