By becoming a public benefit corporation, OpenAI hasn’t overcome these challenges, but it has certainly simplified them. Tranches of additional funding from SoftBank Group Corp. can now be accessed, and OpenAI now a has clearer path to going public some day (now that’s an S-1 I’d like to see). It can more freely court the services of other cloud providers without giving Microsoft right of first refusal. It can build “some products” with other companies, reducing its reliance on Microsoft’s questionable ability to smartly incorporate ChatGPT into Office 365, Bing and other products. In other words, the bottlenecks are gone — but then, so are the excuses.