But OpenAI has received more than $13 billion in funding from Microsoft over the years, and that money has come with a strange contractual agreement that the startup would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved.

The corporate transition will allow OpenAI to raise more money and finally give its board the freedom to consider what its investors want.

Encode, a nonprofit AI safety org, has requested permission to file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk's injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit.

OpenAI on Friday laid out a plan to transition its for-profit arm into a Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC) to help it raise capital and stay ahead in the costly AI race against companies such as Google.

OpenAI has other AI tools like Sora, which quickly creates videos from text prompts. Another, Whisper, transcribes and translates speech into text.

The AI industry wants Trump’s Washington to embrace it as a bulwark against China. OpenAI is trying to lead the pack.

"We have a nonprofit and a for-profit today, and we will continue to have both, with the for-profit’s success enabling the nonprofit to be well funded, better sustained, and in a stronger position for the mission," OpenAI said.

To demonstrate we are still not at human-level intelligence, Chollet notes some of the simple problems in ARC-AGI that o3 can't solve. One such problem involves simply moving a colored square by a given amount -- a pattern that quickly becomes clear to a human.

See all the announcements from OpenAI’s 12-day extravaganza, including new integrations for developers and an opportunity to stress-test the next big model.

OpenAI on Friday outlined plans to revamp its structure, saying it would create a public benefit corporation to make it easier to "raise more capital than we'd imagined," and remove the restrictions imposed on the startup by its current nonprofit parent.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI laid out plans on Friday for a new corporate structure shifting away from control by a nonprofit an issue of contention for the artificial intelligence trailblazer.