Key Takeaways Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI said it needs to raise more capital than expected, and laid out plans for transitioning toward a for-profit structure next year. The ChatGPT maker said its existing for-profit division will become a corporation with ordinary shares of stock.

OpenAI on Friday outlined plans to revamp its structure, saying it would create a public benefit corporation to make it easier to "raise more capital than we'd imagined," and remove the restrictions imposed on the startup by its current nonprofit parent.

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