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Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by dorkwood on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:12AM (#33851656)
They were previously non-profit. They changed to "capped profit" in 2019, meaning profits for investors are capped at 100x their original investment. So an investment of ten million dollars will only return, at most, 1 billion dollars.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/openai-shifts-from-nonprof...

Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by singularity2001 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:42AM (#33851817)
they capped the open in open ai in the slang sense of the word
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by Aeolun on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:37AM (#33852375)
The fuck? That’s basically no different from a for-profit company.
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by himlion on Sunday December 04, 2022 @06:47AM (#33852768)
And probably when the profit starts to reach that level they can just change it again..
Re:Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT by msmart on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:35AM (#33908935)
Thanks. I wasn’t aware of that change.