Everyone is now re-deriving from first principles why OpenAI was a nonprofit
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-10
Miles Brundage (former OpenAI policy lead) relayed a circulating industry quip: everyone is now deriving from first principles why OpenAI was a non-profit to begin with — a snarky nod to the ongoing debate over OpenAI's governance structure, suggesting recent corporate restructuring has put its original non-profit mission back under scrutiny.
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