Elon Musk’s bid to control OpenAI complicates for-profit transition
By
Binu Mathew
A decade ago, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and a group of other founders launched OpenAI as a nonprofit with a mission to build artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. Now, Altman and OpenAI are pushing to restructure as a more conventional for-profit business — and Musk is using every tool at his disposal to stop it.