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OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

apnews.com OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.

OpenAI looks to shift away from nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

OpenAI’s history as a nonprofit research institute that also sells commercial products like ChatGPT may be coming to an end as the San Francisco company looks to more fully convert itself into a for-profit corporation accountable to shareholders.

The company’s board is considering a decision that would change the company into a public benefit corporation, according to a source familiar with the discussions who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about them.

While OpenAI already has a for-profit division, where most of its staff works, it is controlled by a nonprofit board of directors whose mission is to help humanity. That would change if the company converts the core of its structure to a public benefit corporation, which is a type of corporate entity that is supposed to help society as well as turn a profit.

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OpenAI looks to shift away from fake nonprofit roots and convert itself to for-profit company

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  • PSA: There is a super easy to use app called "GPT4ALL" which lets literally any idiot run an open source LLM on their local machine. (As long as you don't go fucking crazy and try to run a huuuuge model, that is)

    Smaller models run at pretty good speeds on my RX 5700 XT. Yes, you heard that right, you can use Vulkan to run them on an AMD GPU

    • Is there an easy program to run one on an Intel GPU?

      • It uses Vulkan so it should be fine

        • I gave it a shot but the program just crashes in Windows 11. It may be because I only have 4gb of vram.

          • Tested with a 4Gb RTX 2050 laptop, works perfectly fine. Tested on a i5-3570 & RX 480 machine, also works fine.

            What are your settings and setup?

            • I have an Intel a310 and a Ryzen Apu. I guess I was trying to select the apu Vulcan in the menu. The a310 doesn't show up as an option.

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