OpenAI has revealed its plan to transform into a for-profit organization next year. It will maintain a nonprofit charitable branch.

OpenAI on Friday laid out a plan to revamp its corporate structure next year, saying it would create a public benefit corporation to manage its growing business and ease the restrictions imposed by its current non-profit parent.

OpenAI is planning to convert its for-profit arm to a public benefit corporation in Delaware "with ordinary shares of stock."

The move] would enable us to raise the necessary capital with conventional terms like others in this space.” As part of the transformation, OpenAI’s nonprofit division would retain a stake in the for-profit unit in the form of shares “at a fair valuation determined by independent financial advisors,

The company currently has a for-profit org controlled by a nonprofit, with a “capped profit” share for investors and employees. But in a blog post published Friday, the company says it plans to begin transitioning its existing for-profit into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (PBC),