OpenAI Restructures as $500B Public Benefit Corporation

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Above: The OpenAI and Microsoft logos displayed on smartphones in Chongqing, China, on Aug. 27, 2025. Image copyright: CFOTO/Future Publishing/Getty Images

The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

OpenAI's restructuring as a public benefit corporation represents a groundbreaking model for responsible AI development. The $130 billion nonprofit foundation creates unprecedented resources for global health breakthroughs and AI safety research while maintaining its mission-focused governance.

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Establishment-critical narrative

OpenAI's restructuring is a calculated power grab disguised as philanthropy. Altman is engineering systemic dependencies across the tech ecosystem to become too interconnected to fail, abandoning the original humanitarian mission for profit-driven expansion that threatens creative industries.

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