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A nonprofit with unprecedented resources, and the ability to start putting them to work immediately. A for-profit with enough capital to build the compute needed to unlock AI’s next advances. And a future marked by research breakthroughs in health, science, and AI safety made possible by OpenAI's innovative new structure

That sense of possibility came through clearly in an OpenAI Forum conversation with Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon and Head of Mission Alignment Joshua Achiam, who walked members through OpenAI’s historic recapitalization earlier this week. The shift creates a nonprofit OpenAI Foundation that will hold roughly $130 billion in equity in OpenAI’s for-profit arm, now a public benefit corporation called OpenAI Group PBC. The PBC carries the same mission as the Foundation and remains under its oversight — ensuring the company’s success directly strengthens the public good and expands access to AI and its benefits.

Jason said the restructuring removes the biggest bottleneck in advancing AI: access to compute and the infrastructure behind it. Under the new structure, OpenAI’s PBC can more easily raise the vast sums required to build more compute and support frontier research. As he explained, that shift could determine whether “you are driving a lot of this technological change or if you’re just one of the companies doing so.”

For his part, Joshua noted that the restructuring gives the Foundation access to significant financial resources, allowing it to begin quickly supporting meaningful work curing diseases and building AI resilience. As he put it, “great things can start happening much sooner.” 

 “We want to help all of humanity. We want to do something good for people. That's why we show up for work,” he said. “Critics think we’re not sincere, but we are in fact totally sincere.”

Jason closed with a story that captured what this moment unlocks. Early in his time at OpenAI, Jason asked then–VP of Research Bob McGrew if he could share more visibility into what was coming next. Bob simply smiled and said: “It’s research.” The lesson, Jason said, is that discovery doesn’t follow a fixed roadmap — and breakthroughs often arrive unexpectedly. 

"The point that I took away is that you have to operate the company on a path of discovery and surprise, and you have to embrace that," Jason said. "That  sometimes means the thing that you're doing right now may not be the thing three months later because of where the science is taking you, and you have to be comfortable with that."

Summary contributed by, Yochi Dreazen 


Event Replay: A New Chapter for OpenAI: Mission, Momentum & the OpenAI Foundation

Łukasz Kaiser’s OpenAI Forum talk, “Learning Powerful Models: From Transformers to Reasoners and Beyond” offered a research-focused but deeply values-aligned reflection on how AI is evolving from data-hungry systems toward reasoning models that learn more efficiently and safely. The framing he used emphasized safety, learnability, and human-like reasoning. He consistently underscored that making AI more learnable from less data and more computationally powerful ensures that progress in AI remains beneficial, efficient, and accessible to all, rather than concentrated among a few actors.

Event Replay: Learning Powerful Models: From Transformers to Reasoners and Beyond

The conversation, featuring educator and California teacher of the year, Casey Cuny showcased how ChatGPT is transforming education. Cuny emphasized AI literacy as a moral imperative, framing AI as an opportunity.  He spoke about democratizing AI benefits, boosting productivity, expanding educational access, and reinforcing the importance of ethical, human-centered use. The dialogue also highlighted teacher adoption, policy considerations, and workforce readiness—areas where democratic AI values, infrastructure investment, and shared benefits intersect.

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About the Talk: The use of AI in art making is as old as AI itself. The ways artists integrated AI in their creative process have been evolving with the advances of AI models and their capabilities. What is the value artists find when using AI as part of their process? What is the role of an artist and what is the role of AI in the process? How is that changing now with generative AI being dominated by text prompting as the way of interface? What have we gained and what have we lost with the progress of generative AI taking its course out of the uncanny valley to utility with the introduction of large language models as part of image generation. In this talk I will present my viewpoint about answering these questions as well as feedback from talking to many artists about this issue and trying to understand the ways they have integrated AI in their process.

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Worldcoin is creating a new identity and financial network that distinguishes humans from AI. This recording captured the the final in-person OpenAI Forum event of 2023 featuring Alex Blania, the CEO and co-founder of Tools for Humanity and Worldcoin, and Miles Brundage, head of policy research at OpenAI. Attendees learned about the Worldcoin systems designed to generate proof of personhood and ensure democratic access and governance of these systems in order to fairly distribute their benefits. We even featured the Worldcoin Orbs on site! 

About the Speakers: 
Alex Blania is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tools for Humanity, the technology company building tools for the Worldcoin project. He is a Co-Founder of the Worldcoin protocol with Sam Altman and Max Novendstern. Alex is responsible for leading strategy, development, and execution of the technology and tools enabling Worldcoin to ensure everyone benefits fairly from the opportunities AI presents. Alex holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Physics from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and studied physics at Caltech before dedicating his full time and attention to supporting Worldcoin.
Miles Brundage is a researcher and research manager, passionate about the responsible governance of artificial intelligence. In 2018, he joined OpenAI, where he began as a Research Scientist and recently became Head of Policy Research. Before joining OpenAI, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. He is currently an Affiliate of the Centre for the Governance of AI and a member of the AI Task Force at the Center for a New American Security. From 2018 through 2022, he served as a member of Axon's AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board. He completed a PhD in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University in 2019. Prior to graduate school, he worked at the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E). His academic research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and the Future of Life Institute.

Worldcoin: Distinguishing Humans From AI

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AI is changing how we work. This edition shares OpenAI’s Workforce Blueprint—a roadmap to help people, companies, and communities thrive in the AI-powered economy.

The Prompt: AI at Work

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