Microsoft to now hold $135 billion stake in OpenAI as ChatGPT maker completes restructure

Microsoft and OpenAI have finalized a new agreement which would give the Windows maker a 27% stake in the AI startup, which amounts to around $135 billion. Notably, the new stake was revealed as OpenAI announced that it has restructured from a non-profit to a public benefit corporation.

​The ChatGPT maker says that its non-profit would now be called the OpenAI Foundation and would hold equity worth around $130 billion in the for-profit unit. The for-profit arm, which is a public benefit corporation, would be called OpenAI Group PBC.