Choose an institution to see its records and dossier, or choose a topic.
Through year 2027 · all records, including scheduled dates 2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2005 1965 Show Organisations and infrastructure All types Organisation Person Document Concept Infrastructure Public body Reset filters
94 people, organisations and other records · 122 relationships · 34 claims about a valueEverything recorded up to the chosen year, whether or not still in effect · Undated records included
Claim and evidence Close ×
OpenAI, Inc. (OpenAI Foundation) holds a control right over ↓ OpenAI
OpenAI announced on 5 May 2025 that its board had decided that the nonprofit would retain control of OpenAI, and that its for-profit LLC would transition to a public benefit corporation that the nonprofit would control and in which it would be a large shareholder. Copy claim link
Copy claim reference
Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editor Stated in source Supported
Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source
Date 2025-05-05 · announcement Scope and limits An announced plan, not an effective arrangement; the October 2025 certificate of incorporation and the Delaware Attorney General’s statement are recorded separately. The post says the decision followed dialogue with the offices of the Attorneys General of Delaware and California. The object is OpenAI as a whole, as the post states it.
The evidence 02 primary source Supports the claim
Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗ OpenAI · 2025-05-05
Archived copy, captured 2025-05-05: Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗
Copy source reference
Cite the original source Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.
Copy APA
Download BibTeX Download RIS Download CSL-JSON
Source excerpt “We made the decision for the nonprofit to retain control of OpenAI after hearing from civic leaders and engaging in constructive dialogue with the offices of the Attorney General of Delaware and the Attorney General of California.” Location in source Opening section before “Sam’s Letter to Employees”, final paragraph
Machine-checked · 2026-10-04
Source details and check notes Authors Sam Altman Version Dated publisher page inspected 2026-09-28 and again 2026-10-04; the quote used from 2026-10-04 also matches the Internet Archive capture of 2025-05-05 (18:30 UTC). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-04 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-05-05: Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗ . Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-05-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.Attribution Sam Altman. Evolving OpenAI’s structure. Reuse No redistribution licence asserted.. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice. Check notes Verbatim quote, re-checked on 2026-10-04 by the integrating session against its own direct fetch of the cited expression (mechanical match after whitespace normalisation). Also matched in the Internet Archive capture of 2025-05-05. The passage was first proposed and machine-verified in the week 4b research pass. Human editorial review is pending. primary source Supports the claim
Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗ OpenAI · 2025-05-05
Archived copy, captured 2025-05-05: Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗
Copy source reference
Cite the original source Cite the original document, not Selekoa. Check these details against it.
Copy APA
Download BibTeX Download RIS Download CSL-JSON
Paraphrase OpenAI says its for-profit LLC, under the nonprofit since 2019, will transition to a public benefit corporation, and that the nonprofit will control and also be a large shareholder of it.
Location in source Opening section, paragraphs beginning “Our for-profit LLC” and “The nonprofit will control”
Machine-checked · 2026-10-04
Source details and check notes Authors Sam Altman Version Dated publisher page inspected 2026-09-28 and again 2026-10-04; the quote used from 2026-10-04 also matches the Internet Archive capture of 2025-05-05 (18:30 UTC). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-04 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2025-05-05: Evolving OpenAI’s structure ↗ . Captured on the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-05-05. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.Attribution Sam Altman. Evolving OpenAI’s structure. Reuse No redistribution licence asserted.. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice. Check notes Editorial paraphrase, re-checked on 2026-10-04 by the integrating session against its own direct fetch of the cited expression. The integrating session wrote or selected this passage from its own reading of the source; it does not repeat a passage from the week 4b research pass. Human editorial review is pending. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A documented right through which the subject controls, or shapes the governance of, the object — controlling it as sole member or general partner, holding its voting control, or electing, appointing or removing its directors — through a named instrument and from a stated date. Stage separates planned, announced or agreed arrangements from effective ones. A control right is not an ownership share: an equity stake, an observer seat or a board seat is not control, and none is inferred from another.
Date. Date of the announcement (day precision), also matched in the Internet Archive capture of 2025-05-05.
Record ID cs-openai-nonprofit-retains-control-2025