In today's big story, we're looking at the latest controversy to embroil OpenAI amid a difficult few months for the startup .
Their takeaway was simple: OpenAI wants to have it both ways regarding how it's perceived about safety and commercialization.
It's structured as a "capped-profit" company governed by a nonprofit, and Altman doesn't hold equity directly in OpenAI.
The result, the VC told me, is people feel OpenAI is talking out of both sides of its mouth.
It doesn't help that some OpenAI employees joined when that split was closer to 80/20 and favored safety over business, they added.
Persons:
—, we've, OpenAI Justin Sullivan, Chelsea Jia Feng, Anthropic signees, Scarlett Johansson, Elon, Madeline Berg, Sam Altman, Altman, Justin Sullivan, OpenAI, It's, Patrick McMullan, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, Izzy Englander's, Griffin's, Marko Kolanovic, ANDREW CABALLERO, REYNOLDS, youngs, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Keith Enright, Alyssa Powell, They've, Shopify, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Jack Sommers, George Glover, Annie Smith
Organizations:
Service, Business, Google, Millennium Management, Getty Images, Facebook, CNBC, BI, SpaceX
Locations:
OpenAI, Patrick, It's, Tesla, New York, London