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Oct. 29, 2025, 7:10 PM EDT

By [Jared Perlo](https://www.nbcnews.com/author/jared-perlo-ncpn1312649) and [Jiachuan Wu](https://www.nbcnews.com/author/jiachuan-wu-ncpn911951)

OpenAI announced Tuesday morning that it had completed a tumultuous corporate restructuring effort, simplifying a [complex ownership web](https://www.openaifiles.org/restructuring) into a controlling nonprofit entity and a reimagined for-profit subsidiary.

The simplified structure will allow investors and corporate partners to more easily reap returns from their investments and pave the way to an envisioned public offering. The for-profit’s board will be appointed solely by the overarching nonprofit entity and will, for now, consist entirely of the nonprofit organization’s board members.

In a [livestream session](https://openai.com/live/) announcing the change Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the for-profit entity “will be able to attract the resources we need for \[our\] gigantic infrastructure buildout to serve the research and product goals that we have.”

[Altman said](https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman) OpenAI has committed to spend roughly $1.4 trillion on infrastructure so far, largely devoted to the data centers and high-performance computing chips required to train and power cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems.

The umbrella nonprofit organization will be rebranded as the OpenAI Foundation, and the for-profit entity will be called the OpenAI Group.

Like [competitor Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/company), the new OpenAI Group will be a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), a type of for-profit corporation that [intends to produce public benefits](https://delcode.delaware.gov/title8/c001/sc15/) and operate in a responsible and sustainable manner, balancing financial returns to shareholders with a broader public interest. A [company webpage](https://openai.com/our-structure/) describing the company’s new structure specifies that the OpenAI Group PBC will advance OpenAI’s “mission and consider the broader interests of all stakeholders, ensuring the company’s mission and commercial success advance together.”

Because OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit organization in 2015, it has faced difficulty balancing its nonprofit charitable duties and attracting needed capital. OpenAI launched a [for-profit subsidiary in 2019](https://openai.com/index/openai-lp/), predicting [it would require](https://openai.com/index/why-our-structure-must-evolve-to-advance-our-mi

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