In Post a new blogOPNA has warned against unauthorized opportunities for openings exposure in various ways, including special objective vehicles known as SPVS.
The company wrote, “If you are contacted to get access to OpenAI if you are contacted, we request you to be careful, including SPV interest sales in contact with OpenAI equity,” the company wrote. The blog post acknowledges that “OpenAI is not every offer of equity […] Problem “however said agencies” may “try to prevent our transfer restrictions”.
“If that is the case then the sale will not be recognized and will not carry any economic value to you,” said Openai.
Investors have used SPVs (which for one-off investment for one-off investment) as a way to buy in hot AI startups, requested other VCs to criticize their “tourist champes”.
Business Insider has said that OpenAI is not the only major AI company, is seeking to crack down on SPVs, Anthropic Menlo tells the initiative It must use its own capital to invest in the upcoming round, not SPV.