Meta asks the government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit
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“OpenAI wants to change its status while retaining all of the benefits that enabled it to reach the point it has today,” Meta argues.

Meta is asking California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block OpenAI’s planned transition from a non-profit to for-profit entity.

In a letter sent to Bonta’s office this week, Meta says that OpenAI “should not be allowed to flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

The letter, which was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal and you can read in full below, goes so far as to say that Meta believes Elon Musk is “qualified and well positioned to represent the interests of Californians in this matter.” Meta supporting Musk’s fight against OpenAI is notable given that Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were talking about literally fighting in a cage match just last year.

  • Loduz_247@lemmy.worldEnglish
    64·
    14 hours ago

    Why doesn’t Meta want Open AI to be a for-profit company?

    And are there any examples of a company that started as a non-profit becoming for-profit?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      It seems like besides Linux itself, most successful open source projects go for profit. When users don’t like the changes, they fork and keep going.

      Like MySQL going for profit with a sell out to Oracle and MariaDB becoming the most popular fork of MySQL.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      202·
      13 hours ago

      for profit would imply they can grow even faster due to having funds to expand its service. You would be against it if you plan on having your own competing AI service(which meta clearly does)