OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that his company was made “unusual” on purpose. Now, that unusualness is getting in the way of raising more money from investors.
In a Friday blog post, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT said its board is deep into planning how OpenAI will “become more than a lab and a startup” in 2025. A central part of this shift will involve its convoluted structure—wherein a nonprofit currently controls a for-profit arm, which itself controls a holding company that controls another for-profit entity.
