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OpenAI Has Gone For-Profit

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

OpenAI has officially done its whole reorg to for-profit thing. Amazon is cutting a metric ton of employees and its blaming AI. Elon launches Grokpedia to take on Wikipedia. And does Anthropic’s success in the enterprise give it a leg up on OpenAI in the one metric that counts? Making money? OpenAI completed its for-profit restructuring — and struck a new deal with Microsoft (The Verge) Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Reduce Bureaucracy (Bloomberg) Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’ (The Washington Post) Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work (The Verge) OpenAI’s Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model (WSJ) Jimmy Wales on IHP Margit Wennmachers on IHP Fred Wilson on IHP Blog post to post on Hacker News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. OpenAI has

0:09.5

officially done its whole reorg to for-profit thing. Amazon is cutting a metric ton of employees and is

0:15.3

blaming AI. Elon launches Grocopedia to take on Wikipedia Wikipedia and does Anthropics success in the enterprise

0:22.9

give it a leg up on Open AI in the one metric that counts, which is making money?

0:27.0

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OpenAI says it has, quote, completed our recapitalization. The OpenAI Foundation now has

1:36.6

equity in OpenAI, valued at around $130 billion, and it continues to control the OpenAI

1:42.5

for-profit entity.

1:51.9

Microsoft says it supports this move, got a 27% stake in the form of a $135 billion public benefit corporation investment, also got access to OpenAI's AI models until 2032, including

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