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OpenAI Outlines Its For-Profit Transition Plans 🤯
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Gina Acosta
December 27, 2024
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Just days before the New Year, OpenAI outlined plans to revamp its structure in order to secure the funds needed for its AGI ambitions.
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OpenAI Lays Out Plan to Shift to New For-Profit Structure
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OPENAI
OpenAI Lays Out Plan to Shift to New For-Profit Structure
OpenA has revealed its plans to transition to a public benefit corporation (PBC) in 2025. This new structure is aimed at managing its rapidly growing business while keeping its non-profit goals alive.
Details:
OpenAI currently has a for-profit organization controlled by a nonprofit, with a “capped profit” share for investors and employees. The company plans to transition its for-profit structure into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), offering ordinary shares and maintaining the OpenAI mission as its public benefit interest.
Under the proposed structure, the PBC will manage OpenAI's operations and business, while the nonprofit will hire a leadership team and staff for charitable initiatives in sectors like healthcare, education, and science.
Rival companies like Anthropic and xAI already use similar structures, but lack a nonprofit component.
OpenAI recently raised $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion, contingent on restructuring to remove profit caps for investors.
The company expects the structural change will help attract more investment, admitting that they “need to raise more capital than they'd imagined.” However, the transition faces many hurdles, including Elon Musk filing for an injunction to block the company’s shift to a for-profit model, as well as Meta joining efforts to prevent OpenAI’s conversion.
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AI System Now Calls Soccer Fouls, Evaluates Plays, and Provides Commentary
A new AI system, developed by researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Alibaba, is changing the way soccer games are analyzed. Named MatchVision, the system can identify fouls, assess their severity, and even provide natural-sounding commentary just like a human announcer.
Details:
The system was trained on a dataset called "SoccerReplay-1988," featuring nearly 2,000 matches and over 3,300 hours of footage from top European leagues and the Champions League (2014-2024).
MatchVision is the first all-in-one system that can recognize 24 types of game events, analyze fouls from multiple angles, and generate match commentary.
In tests, MatchVision achieved up to 84% accuracy in identifying game events and outperformed existing systems in play detection, foul evaluation, and commentary generation.
While the AI excels at technical and tactical details, human commentators still bring emotional context and broader perspectives to the game.
MatchVision represents a major step forward in AI-powered sports analysis. The researchers suggest the system could automatically generate game highlights or assist referees, building on existing AI technologies already used for tasks like offside calls.
AI Tutorial
How to use Google Scholar to enhance your research
Here are 5 ways to get the most from Google Scholar for your next research project:
Use AI Outlines in PDF Reader
Google Scholar's AI outline feature offers a quick way to navigate through academic papers. It displays a summary of key sections, making it easier to focus on the most relevant parts.
Available for selected English papers, click the AI Outline icon when reading PDFs. To enable, install the Google Scholar PDF Reader extension and update it via Chrome Extensions.
Explore legal documents with 'Case Law'
Google Scholar allows anyone to research legal documents and learn about any law they are interested in. Select "Case law" below the search bar and type your law-related query.
Generate article citations in the style of your choice
By clicking the "cite" button, Google Scholar instantly provides ready-to-use citations in various formats. Simply select the style you need.
Create your own research library
Google Scholar allows you to save articles to your personal library with just one click. Organize your research, create custom folders, and access your library from anywhere with an internet connection.
Follow researchers
On Google Scholar, you can follow authors to receive email alerts when they publish new work, helping you stay updated on the latest research, trends, and discoveries from key figures and competitors.
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OpenAI has recently considered building its own humanoid robot, despite abandoning its robotics ambitions in 2021 by closing its robotics division. Recent advancements in hardware and AI could push the company back into the field.
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