HN Resurfaces OpenAI's 2015 Launch Post: Nonprofit, $1B Pledge
andsoitis · hn · 2026-09-27
Hacker News users dug up OpenAI's original 2015 launch announcement, which framed the lab as a nonprofit research company aiming to advance digital intelligence in the way most likely to benefit humanity, free from financial obligations. The founding team pledged $1 billion, with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others on the founding roster. Viewed against OpenAI's ongoing shift toward a for-profit structure, the decade-old post sparked considerable discussion.
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