Re:A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonp...
by hollerith on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:34PM
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Wikipedia says that "OpenAI is the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP, whose parent organization is the non-profit organization OpenAI Inc."
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Re:A.I. researchers are making more than $1M, even at a nonp...
by _delirium on Sunday September 29, 2019 @04:40PM
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It's kind of a weird structure, but I think more like a company than like a nonprofit in the short/medium term. The parent is a nonprofit organization, but it's not the same arrangement as Mozilla Foundation vs. Mozilla Corporation, where all earnings from the subsidiary go to the parent nonprofit. With OpenAI, the parent nonprofit only gets earnings in excess of 100x return. The for-profit company raises investment and returns any earnings to the investors until/unless they hit the 100x return mark. They call this a "capped profit" structure.
When it was founded in 2015, OpenAI was originally a nonprofit, but restructured into this new arrangement earlier this year in order to be able to raise VC money: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...