OpenAI Aiming to Eliminate Microsoft AGI Rule to Boost Future Investment

PYMNTS.com December 8, 2024

OpenAI could reportedly give Microsoft access to its as-yet-unrealized artificial general intelligence (AGI).

As it stands now, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup has a provision that blocks Microsoft from accessing OpenAI’s AGI, or AI that can think and perform tasks at or above the level of humans.

However, OpenAI is considering removing that rule from its corporate structure, allowing Microsoft — its biggest benefactor — to continue to invest and access OpenAI technology once AGI is achieved, the Financial Times (FT) reported Friday (Dec. 6), citing sources familiar with the matter.

According to the report, OpenAI initially added the provision to protect AGI from being misused for commercial purposes, giving ownership of the technology to its nonprofit board.

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