A thought experiment to illustrate the incoherence of OpenAI's structure. Imagine a company called ProfitAI, a company without any limits on profit and returns,

A thought experiment to illustrate the incoherence of OpenAI's structure. Imagine a company called ProfitAI, a company without any limits on profit and returns, and thus able to raise much more money then OpenAI and using that money to license the base models from OpenAI. Microsoft played the role of ProfitAI here. The non-profit structure only served to ensure that someone else would make the profits.