OpenAI and its technology will remain in the control of a non-profit organization, according to a letter to employees from Sam Altman on Monday. The big picture: OpenAI began as a non-profit, but Altman has been considering changing the structure of OpenAI since shortly after his brief ouster in November 2023 and the cost of building and maintaining ChatGPT has skyrocketed.

OpenAI has called off a controversial effort to change which entity controls its juggernaut artificial intelligence business. The move effectively leaves power over CEO Sam Altman’s future in the hands of the same body that briefly ousted him two years ago.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said it will no longer seek to restructure into a for-profit company separate from its nonprofit board, a move Elon Musk had sought to block.