OpenAI scraps plans to become fully for-profit, reaffirming nonprofit control after pressure from critics, investors, and state officials.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been working on wriggling out from under the control of the company’s nonprofit board ever since they (briefly) fired him. But, after several efforts to prevent the move, including a lawsuit filed by OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk, the company announced on Monday that it will keep its structure for now.

Elon Musk intends to proceed with his lawsuit against OpenAI, despite the AI startup's revised plan to maintain control through its non-profit arm. Musk's lawyer argues that OpenAI will still develop closed-source AI for profit,