OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead.
OpenAI and Microsoft’s partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped.
On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a handful of big changes to its long-standing OpenAI deal. The two companies’ oft-renegotiated deal has become even less exclusive.
The two companies’ oft-renegotiated deal has become even less exclusive. Perhaps more notably, the two companies killed the contract’s “AGI clause,” which set a variety of conditions if one of them achieved “artificial general intelligence.” (It’s a vaguely defined industry term that typically means AI systems that equal.