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

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

In 2018, Dario Amodei wrote that 'everything was a rotating set of schemes to raise money' in reference to Sam Altman and other OpenAI founders.

Elon Musk had a falling out with Sam Altman because Musk felt Altman had abandoned OpenAI's altruistic goals for profit.

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.

Greg Brockman wrote in a 2017 diary entry that if OpenAI became a BC Corp three months later, their commitment to the nonprofit would be a lie.