OpenAI created a for-profit subsidiary attached to its nonprofit structure.

The OpenAI can show investors that a large group of people are willing to pay a recurring subscription fee for their services, it is a good indication that there may be a path to profitability in the future.

Internal records show that OpenAI founders had private doubts about the non-profit structure as early as 2017.

OpenAI was founded in 2015.

Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015 when the company started as a nonprofit.

OpenAI is completing its metamorphosis from a nonprofit organization operating for the good of humanity to a shareholder-focused company gearing up for one of the biggest IPOs in history.