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>>nickru+(OP)
What an unbelievable turn of events! To the outside observer, OpenAI is one of the most successful, well-oiled machines, shipping nearly weekly and doing an unbelievably good job marketing itself. Clearly, there's a lot of turmoil going on behind the scenes.

>>lexand+r4
We don't really know anything about the internal finances at this point. The product is solid but who knows how fucked up things are. Maybe they were on track to run out of money. GPU compute ain't cheap.

>>__loam+r6
None of that can be a reason for a step like this. OpenAI can easily charge much more for their products, and there is a market for even extremely high prices (even if not as big) and given this is a non profit, it doesn't even need to make billions of dollars in money.

>>crop_r+g7
OpenAI exists both as a nonprofit and, for several years now, as a for-profit company [1] that has taken billions of dollars in investment. It needs to make billions of dollars to return to investors just as much as any other for-profit company does.

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp

>>CrazyS+Q9
The non profit is the majority owner of the for profit, and there is no investor pressure here to make billions.

>>crop_r+Aa
Could that not change as the board changes?

>>j45+rj
I think the board is required to be a majority non-equity-holders precisely because an equity-holding board will not keep to their non-profit mission.