It's been a full year since Sam Altman returned to OpenAI at the end of 2024. Looking back at the past year, OpenAI has changed enormously.
Restructuring
OpenAI announced its transition to a for-profit company (PBC, Public Benefit Corporation). This means: - No longer constrained by the non-profit board - Can raise funds and go public normally - But it has also sparked much controversy—Musk filed a lawsuit claiming this betrays OpenAI's original mission
Talent Flow
Key people who left OpenAI over the past year: - Ilya Sutskever (co-founder, went to Safe Superintelligence) - Mira Murati (former CTO) - Multiple safety team members
Altman's take is that "this is normal talent turnover," but outsiders interpret it as a clash between the safety faction and the commercial faction.
Products
- ChatGPT monthly active users grew from 100 million to 300 million
- GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-4o released
- Sora video generation model launched
- Partnership with Apple (Apple Intelligence integrates ChatGPT)
OpenAI is no longer that "non-profit research lab"—it is becoming another tech giant.
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