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Yes, OpenAI Nonprofit is a 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. See our Charter for details: https://openai.com/charter/.

The Nonprofit would fail at this mission without raising billions of dollars, which is why we have designed this structure. If we succeed, we believe we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company — in which case all but a fraction is returned to the world.

>>gdb+(OP)
In other words, you have no downside. Create AGI and you win the game. Don't and you walk away with profit from the ride.