OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that his company was made “unusual” on purpose. Now, that unusualness is getting in the way of raising more money from investors. In a Friday blog post, the company behind the popular AI chatbot ChatGPT said its board is deep into planning how OpenAI will “become more than a lab and a startup” in 2025.

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 making a big change to fund its future. By 2025, it plans to become a Public Benefit Corporation, combining for-profit operations with a nonprofit arm focused on education, healthcare, and science.

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.