OpenAI completes conversion to for-profit business after lengthy legal saga
by Guardian staff and agency from Technology | The Guardian on (#712ND)
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OpenAI said on Tuesday it had converted its main business into a for-profit corporation, the conclusion of a lengthy and fraught legal saga.
A crucial regulator, Kathy Jennings, the Delaware attorney general, said she approved the plan for the startup, which began as a non-profit in 2015, to change to a public benefit corporation, a type of for-profit entity that expresses commitment to bettering society.
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