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“The non -profit organization will control and also be a great shareholder of the PBC, which gives the non -profit organizations better resources to support many advantages,” said Openai’s blog post. “Our mission remains the same and the PBC will have the same mission.”

The Attorney General of Delaware, Kathy Jennings, told Kabel that she was encouraged by Openai, taking into account her concerns and admitted to the non -profit organization. “After the company has a new plan, I intend to check it for compliance with the Delaware Act by ensuring that it coincides with Openas non-profit purpose and that the non-profit company keeps adequate control over the non-profit company,” said Jennings.

Elissa Perez, spokeswoman for the Attorney General of the California General Prosecutor, said in a statement that her office also checked the new plan.

Robert Weissman, Co-President of Public Citizen, who is committed to large companies and has long criticized the structure of Openai, says that the plans of the startup are still unsatisfactory. There are no new restrictions to ensure that the fight against winners will benefit the non-profit mission of Openaai with high-performance AI tools, he claims. “This leaves us where we are, and with a non -profit organization that allegedly checks a non -profit profit, but does not exercise a visible restraint on the profit,” Weissman told WIRED.

Openai’s plans require the new non -profit organization to keep shares in the public performance society. A rating of 300 billion US dollars recently evaluated by the financing of Openas, so that these shares could be extremely lucrative because the non -profit organization sells or has an effect. The California Philanthropic activists have requested The non -profit organization to obtain an “reasonable value” of shares, which could lead to the best financed foundation that has ever been created. They also want the non -profit organization to be independent of the company, so that business interests do not corrupt the Philanthropian donations. On Monday, activists renewed their call to determine bonta to check carefully whether Openai’s plans will achieve this separation.

Openai spokesman Steve Sharpe said that the non-profit organization would have the right to appoint and remove board members from the public benefit company. “The move to a (public n-nefit corporation) will remove the structure of the caped profit,” he added. “The PBC will have a conventional capital structure with which employees, investors and the non -profit organization can keep equity directly.”

“Openai is not a normal company and it will never be,” Altman wrote in an e -mail to employees who was admitted to the company’s announcement.

Update 5/5/25 7:35 ET: This story has been updated to record additional comments from Openai and the California Vaillat’s General’s Office.