Evolving OpenAI’s structure

Why OpenAI’s structure must evolve to advance our mission

A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.

New commission to provide insight as OpenAI builds the world’s best-equipped nonprofit

Already a nonprofit, and already using AI to help people solve hard problems, OpenAI aims to build the best-equipped nonprofit the world has ever seen—combining potentially historic financial resources with something even more powerful: technology that can scale human ingenuity itself.

Organizational update from OpenAI

It’s been a year of dramatic change and growth at OpenAI.

Statement on OpenAI’s Nonprofit and PBC

OpenAI reaffirms its nonprofit leadership with a new structure granting equity in its PBC, enabling over $100B in resources to advance safe, beneficial AI for humanity.

Introducing OpenAI

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

OpenAI announces leadership transition

Built to benefit everyone

OpenAI’s recapitalization strengthens mission-focused governance, expanding resources to ensure AI benefits everyone while advancing innovation responsibly.

OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption

OpenAI takes an ownership stake in Thrive Holdings to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, embedding frontier research and engineering directly into accounting and IT services to boost speed, accuracy, and efficiency while creating a scalable model for industry-wide transformation.

OpenAI nonprofit jam

At OpenAI, we build tools to help people solve hard problems—including nonprofits working on the frontlines of their communities. The OpenAI Academy is teaming up with the Walton Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, and a network of local nonprofit organizations to host the Nonprofit Jam—a one-day, nationwide event bringing together more than 1,000 nonprofit leaders across 10 locations.

OpenAI LP

We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.

Introducing OpenAI for Nonprofits

We’re launching a new initiative to enhance the accessibility of our tools for nonprofit organizations, including discounted rates for ChatGPT Team and Enterprise.

Leadership updates

OpenAI has grown a lot. We remain focused on the same core—pursuing frontier AI research that accelerates human progress–but we now also deliver products used by hundreds of millions of people.