OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

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• OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

• Perplexity Raises $200M as AI Search Arms Race Heats Up

• RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

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OpenAI secures Microsoft’s blessing to transition its for-profit arm

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: OpenAI has signed a nonbinding agreement with Microsoft to restructure its for-profit entity into a public benefit corporation (PBC), a move that could unlock new capital and set the stage for a future IPO—if approved by regulators. The nonprofit board will retain control and gain a stake potentially worth over $100 billion.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• OpenAI plans PBC conversion: A nonbinding MOU with Microsoft outlines a path for OpenAI’s for-profit arm to become a public benefit corporation.

• Nonprofit retains control: The nonprofit parent will continue governing OpenAI and receive a significant equity stake in the PBC.

• Microsoft partnership evolves: While Microsoft retains preferred access and cloud provider status, OpenAI has recently diversified with Oracle and SoftBank partnerships.

• Regulatory review ahead: The plan requires approval from attorneys general in California and Delaware.

• Tensions and lawsuits loom: The restructuring faces legal scrutiny, including from Elon Musk’s lawsuit and critiques by AI-aligned nonprofits.

💡 Why This Stands Out:OpenAI’s restructuring signals a pivotal evolution from a capped-profit model to a potentially IPO-ready entity—while maintaining nonprofit oversight. The move highlights growing friction between mission-driven governance and commercial scale in AI. As Big Tech tightens its grip on foundational models, will PBCs offer a viable middle ground between profit and principle?

Perplexity

Perplexity Raises $200M as AI Search Arms Race Heats Up

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: Perplexity, the AI-driven search challenger, has raised another $200 million at a $20 billion valuation—just weeks after its previous round—underscoring its rapid rise as a serious rival to Google in the evolving search landscape.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• Perplexity has now raised $1.5 billion in total since launching three years ago.

• This latest $200M round follows a $100M raise just two months ago at an $18B valuation.

• Annual recurring revenue is reportedly nearing $200M, up from $150M just last month.

• The investor leading this round hasn’t been disclosed; prior funding was led by Accel.

• In August, Perplexity made headlines by offering $34.5B to acquire Google Chrome following DOJ antitrust pressures.

💡 Why This Stands Out:Perplexity’s meteoric growth—both in valuation and revenue—signals accelerating demand for AI-native alternatives to traditional search. While Google retains legal control over its search empire, Perplexity’s aggressive strategy and funding momentum position it as one of the most credible challengers in the AI-first internet era. Can a startup actually reshape the search market Google has ruled for decades?

RSS/AI

RSS co-creator launches new protocol for AI data licensing

🚀 TodayOnAI Insight: A coalition of publishers and technologists has launched Real Simple Licensing (RSL), a new system designed to bring large-scale data licensing to the AI industry. Backed by major sites like Reddit and Quora, RSL aims to curb mounting copyright risks and establish a sustainable framework for training data usage.

🔍 Key Takeaways:

• What’s new: RSL introduces a scalable, machine-readable protocol for web-based content licensing, enabling AI firms to easily identify and comply with publishers' terms.

• Technical structure: Licensing info is embedded in websites’ robots.txt files, outlining permissions ranging from Creative Commons to custom licenses.

• Legal framework: The RSL Collective functions like ASCAP, handling negotiations and royalties for participating publishers.

• Major supporters: Yahoo, Reddit, Medium, O’Reilly, and Ziff Davis have joined the collective; Quora, Adweek, and others support the protocol independently.

• Challenges ahead: Tracking training data use—especially for inference-based royalties—remains technically complex and may limit adoption.

💡 Why This Stands Out: RSL could mark a turning point in AI's copyright reckoning. As lawsuits mount and regulatory pressure intensifies, AI labs may need to choose between structured licensing or ongoing legal uncertainty. The industry’s next moves will reveal whether recent calls for responsible data use were sincere—or strategic deflections.

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