AI Research Group Co-Founded by Elon Musk Starts For-Profit Arm

  • OpenAI’s new structure will allow it to tap more investment
  • Returns will be capped so nonprofit will continue to benefit
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OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research group co-founded by Elon Musk and several other prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, is starting a for-profit arm that will allow it to raise more money.

The group, which had been founded as a nonprofit company in late 2015, said the new for-profit arm is needed to attract venture capital and reward employees with stock options.