Elon Musk: ‘This is illegal’: Elon Musk criticises OpenAI’s shift to for-profit model

Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that its non-profit board will no longer control, Reuters reported, a move which has rubbed Elon Musk the wrong way.Musk, who was among the founders of the artificial intelligence (AI) startup in 2015, took to X, to say, “You can’t just convert a non-profit into a for-profit. That is illegal,” after a user questioned OpenAI’s move.

As part of this restructuring, Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive officer (CEO) is set to…