The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

Posted by meetpateltech 10/28/2025

The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership(openai.com)

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schnitzelstoat 10/28/2025|

> Microsoft continues to have exclusive IP rights and Azure API exclusivity until Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

That basically means in perpetuity, no? Are there any signs we are anywhere near AGI (or even that transformers would be capable of it)?

eviks 10/28/2025|

It doesn't because the definition of AGI is very flexible

iandanforth 10/28/2025||

So now OpenAI is committed to spending $550 billion dollars? ($300B to Oracle and $250B to MS). If it currently has ~$10B in revenue / year, how on earth can it meet these commitments?

Lionga 10/28/2025||

Has OpenAI not also committed to spending a few hundered billions at NVIDIA? I mean whats another few hundered billions when you are making so much profit.

Wait, they are not making any profit but already losing billions even before any of these "investments" ?

JohnnyMarcone 10/29/2025||

They stated the total commitment is 1.4 trillion in their live stream about the restructuring and mentioned an IPO as the most likely path to get that amount of funding.

butler533 10/28/2025||

Why do none of OpenAI announcements have an author attributed to them? Are people that ashamed of working there, they don't even want to attach their name to the work? I guess I would be, too.

notatoad 10/28/2025|

because they're corporate PR statements drafted by a team, and corporate press releases don't normally have an author byline

testfrequency 10/28/2025|||

Eh, not really. There’s usually a “voice” behind it.

In general I feel like OAI is clown town to work at these days, so they probably don’t want anyone except leadership to take the heat for ~anything

butler533 10/28/2025|||

Wrong

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/

https://blog.google/

Lol, even Apple has authors listed https://www.apple.com/newsroom/

djha-skin 10/28/2025||

In short: Microsoft changed our business so that we can be for-profit, and asserted its rights over IP so that the whole OpenAI rebellion thing that happened earlier can't happen again.

agnosticmantis 10/28/2025||

> Once AGI is declared by OpenAI, that declaration will now be verified by an independent expert panel.

So OpenAI will declare AGI as soon as ChatGPT is a better AI lawyer than any Microsoft could hire.

mannanj 10/28/2025||

So they specifically did compromise the public mission of generating ai for the common good and now common good is defined as “$100b in profits” what a sham and scam “open”AI company

fidotron 10/28/2025||

> Microsoft can now independently pursue AGI alone or in partnership with third parties.

The question is does this reflect an increase or decrease in confidence at OpenAI wrt them achieving AGI?

CrimsonRain 10/28/2025||

What happens if someone else achieves AGI first? The way they wrote it, seems like they are damn sure they are the ones who will achieve AGI. A bit too egoistic...?

az226 10/29/2025|

Oh no! They lowballed their own valuation. Capped profit shares are much less valuable. Who is going to allow this self-dealing to stand?

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