A small clause inside Openai's contract with MicrosoftOnce considered A distant hypothesisIt has now become a bright spot in one of the largest partnerships in technology.
The provision states that if Openai's Council Ever announced that they have developed general intelligence (AGI), it will limit Microsoft's contract access to startup's future technologies. Microsoft, yes Invest more than $ 13 billion At Openai, it is now thought to be promoting the elimination of terms and Consider walking From completely agreement, according to the Financial Times.
Late last year, the tensions surrounding the important role of AGI in the Microsoft agreement have flooded a debate in Openai about an internal research article, according to many sources familiar with this issue. With the title of five levels of the common abilities, the article sketches a framework to classify the progressive stages of AI technology. By giving specific confirmation of AI in the future, the requirements, the articles may be complicated by Openai's ability to declare that they have achieved AGI, a potential point of taking advantage of negotiations.
We focus on developing experimental methods to evaluate the AGI process, the work can be regenerated, measured and useful for the broader field of 'five levels' is an early effort in classifying stages and terms to describe the possibilities of common AI. This is not a scientific research. Microsoft declined to comment.
In a Blog on blog Describe the structure of the company, Openai Note that AGI is excluded from the IP license and other commercial terms with Microsoft. Openai Identify AGI is “a high autonomy system that is superior to people at work with the most economic value.
The two companies have negotiated their agreement as Openai Prepare company restructuring. While Microsoft Want to continue accessing For Openai models even when the startup declared AGI before the partnership ended by 2030, a person familiar with the cooperation discussions told Wired that Microsoft did not believe that Openai would reach that time. But another source is close to the problem that describes the term as the last lever of Openai. Both sources have been anonymous to talk freely about private discussions.
According to Wall Street MagazineOpenai even considered whether to call the term based on an encryption agent. The negotiations have grown to the point that Openai discussed if it should accuse Microsoft for anti -competition behavior, Each magazine.
A familiar source of discussions, anonymous to talk freely about negotiations, saying Openai is quite close to achieve AGI; Altman has speak He hoped to see it in the current term of Donald Trump.
The same source shows that there are two related definitions: Firstly, the Openai Council can unilaterally decide that the company has achieved AGI as defined in its charter, which will immediately remove Microsoft from accessing technology or revenue originating from AGI; Microsoft will still have the right to everything before that milestone. Second, the contract includes a sufficient AGI concept, added in 2023, in which AGI defines are a system capable of creating a certain profit level. If Openai confirmed that it had reached that benchmark, Microsoft had to approve the decision. The contract also pursues AGI or through third parties with Openai's IP.