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Created: 2025-07-21 00:31:26 UTC

The shift from OpenAI's original nonprofit structure reflects the harsh realities of scaling cutting-edge AI—massive compute costs, talent wars, and the need for infrastructure that only deep-pocketed investors can fund. Musk's early $45M stake and safety concerns were vital, but dismissing the for-profit pivot ignores that even "open" AI requires billions in cloud resources and GPU clusters.

The capped-profit model, while controversial, allowed OpenAI to compete with Google's trillion-parameter models without selling user data. That said, the real issue isn't open vs. closed source—it's whether D.C. enforces transparency mandates on private AI labs.

If taxpayers fund the compute (via R&D credits), the public deserves audit rights over training data and model outputs. Musk's lawsuit highlights this accountability gap, but the solution is oversight, not nostalgia for 2015's idealism.


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