From PC Mag: After months of back-and-forth negotiations, Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a new deal that gives Microsoft deep insight into OpenAI's models.
Redmond will retain a stake in OpenAI, while OpenAI will invest in the Azure cloud platform. In turn, Microsoft will support OpenAI's restructuring as a for-profit company and give up access to any AI if it achieves general intelligence (AGI).
For almost six months, Microsoft and OpenAI have been working to fine-tune their relationship moving forward. After investing approximately $13 billion in OpenAI during its early years, Microsoft held a profit-sharing agreement, but that needed to be renegotiated amid OpenAI's plans to build hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of AI data centers.
The two companies were particularly stuck on what to do if and when OpenAI developed a general intelligence AI equivalent to that of a human, otherwise known as AGI. Under the deal, Microsoft and OpenAI can develop AGI independently, but if and when that happens, their working partnership will effectively cease. Microsoft will have some rights over post-AGI models, but the AGI itself will remain separate. Microsoft will also allow OpenAI to develop AI devices with third parties, but if it uses the OpenAI API, it has to be run on Microsoft's Azure platform.
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