The OpenAI that Sam Altman launched in 2015 is now almost unrecognizable. At the time, he and co-founder Elon Musk were still buddies, and OpenAI was a legit nonprofit—an altruistic endeavor to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” To accomplish this noble mission, OpenAI secured donations (not funding) from the likes of Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Musk, and co-founder Greg Brockman, who still serves as president. “In total,” the company said at the time, “these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.”