
The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
Hayden Field
created: June 18, 2025, 1:40 p.m. | updated: June 18, 2025, 2:59 p.m.
An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets.
For about a year, Tyler Johnston has been collecting public information about the inner workings of OpenAI, and for the past month, he’s been working on a report to help the public understand and visualize it.
That report, dubbed The OpenAI Files, is out today.
Charts and data visualizations help illustrate what we know about OpenAI’s inner workings, including the nonprofits’ best guess at OpenAI’s corporate structure, its original capped-profit structure, and the proposed plan for its restructuring.
One prominent theme is how much OpenAI executives and board members stand to directly or indirectly gain from the company’s successes.
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