OpenAI

OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits humanity, then restructured in 2019 into a capped-profit company under a nonprofit board, taking a multibillion-dollar investment from Microsoft. Documented governance turmoil includes the board’s brief removal of CEO Sam Altman in November 2023 and the subsequent reconstitution of the board. In January 2024 the company removed the explicit prohibition on military use from its usage policies and subsequently announced defense-sector work. Files tagged OpenAI document the corporate structure, the Microsoft relationship, safety-team departures on the public record, and the widening gap between founding rhetoric and commercial and defense alignment.