The Uncut Series: OpenAI's (& ChatGPT's) Nonprofit Origin

Did you know the company that owns ChatGPT started as a nonprofit?!?!?!

In 2015, a group of investors including Peter Thei, Elon Musk, Jessica Livingston, and more banded together to start OpenAI with the "goal of building safe and beneficial artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity."

But 3 years later they turned themselves into a "capped" for-profit company. So, what happened?

In today's episode, we explore the company behind ChatGPT, detailing why it started as a 501(c)3 what prompted it to change its structure, and why it still has a connection to the not-for-profit space.

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If you're anything like me you like a nice cup of tea to start and finish your day in the nonprofit world. That's why host Swim Karim goes to