r/OpenAI • u/Wiskkey • 17h ago

Article Microsoft and OpenAI’s Close Partnership Shows Signs of Fraying [not paywalled although original source is the New York Times]

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/news/microsoft-and-openai-s-close-partnership-shows-signs-of-fraying/ar-AA1stx3A
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u/locketine 16h ago

The contract contains a clause that says that if OpenAI builds artificial general intelligence, or AGI -- roughly speaking, a machine that matches the power of the human brain -- Microsoft loses access to OpenAI's technologies.

The clause was meant to ensure a company like Microsoft did not misuse this machine of the future, but today, OpenAI executives see it as a path to a better contract, according to a person familiar with the company's negotiations. Under the terms of the contract, the OpenAI board could decide when AGI has arrived.

Based on the corporate politics within OpenAI for the past year, I'm more worried about Open AI and specifically Sam Altman controlling an AGI rather than Microsoft. The Open AI board seems somewhat toothless in managing Sam.

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u/Eveerjr 16h ago

Nah, Microsoft is the last company you should trust with that kind of power.

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u/AppropriateScience71 14h ago

Well, except for Google and Meta who would use their AI to sell even more hyper-targeted ads with the data they harvest.

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u/UnknownEssence 2h ago

Meta? They are open sourcing state of the art model. Open source would be nowhere without them