OpenAI Foundation — key-event: OpenAI announces plan to restructure into PBC; initial plan would have removed nonprofit governance control

NoteThe source directly confirms the claim's core elements: (1) OpenAI announced a plan to restructure into a PBC (confirmed: 'transform our existing for-profit into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation'); (2) the announcement occurred in December 2024 (confirmed: dated December 27, 2024); (3) the initial plan would have removed nonprofit governance control over operations (confirmed: the PBC 'will run and control OpenAI's operations and business' while the nonprofit pursues separate charitable initiatives, representing a shift from the current structure where 'the for-profit [is] controlled by the non-profit'). The source also implicitly confirms the framing difference: OpenAI frames it as 'evolving' the structure to 'advance our mission,' while the structural change does reduce direct nonprofit control over the for-profit's operations.