OpenAI restructures, enters ‘next chapter’ of Microsoft partnership

Starting with OpenAI’s reorganisation, the aim is to solidify the nonprofit’s control over the for-profit business and establish the newly named OpenAI Foundation as a global philanthropic powerhouse, holding equity in the commercial arm valued at approximately $130 billion
This reorganisation, which OpenAI says “maintains the strongest representation of mission-focused governance in the industry today,” effectively turns the company’s commercial success into a direct funding pipeline for its original mission.


The for-profit entity is now a public benefit corporation called OpenAI Group PBC, legally bound to that mission. As this PBC grows, so does the Foundation’s $130 billion stake, which will be used to fund an initial $25 billion commitment to global health and AI resilience.

This restructure was finalised after nearly a year of “constructive dialogue” with the offices of the Attorneys General of California and Delaware. OpenAI acknowledged it “made several changes as a result of those discussions” and stated its belief that the company, and by extension the public it serves, “are better for them.”