The key quote in the article is "The actual contract Microsoft has with OpenAI is not publicly available", so we have to go by these imprecise quotes uttered by the CEO during podcasts, such as "We have all the rights and all the capability. I mean, look, right, if tomorrow, if OpenAI disappeared, I don't want any customer of ours to be worried about it, quite honestly, because we have all of the rights to continue the innovation, not just to serve the products".
So, uh, does anyone have any ideas on what the situation actually is? If OpenAI ceased to exist, can Microsoft take the code, model weights, everything of ChatGPT 4, and just continue developing it and produce a new MS-ChatGPT based on it? That seems to be too good to be true. Why would OpenAI give away all of it's IP to Microsoft for that cheap, with the only limitation being MS can only make a 100X return + 20% a year, and MS does not own any IP which OpenAI deems to be at the level of AGI. A deal like that is surely worth more than 10B.
So, uh, does anyone have any ideas on what the situation actually is? If OpenAI ceased to exist, can Microsoft take the code, model weights, everything of ChatGPT 4, and just continue developing it and produce a new MS-ChatGPT based on it? That seems to be too good to be true. Why would OpenAI give away all of it's IP to Microsoft for that cheap, with the only limitation being MS can only make a 100X return + 20% a year, and MS does not own any IP which OpenAI deems to be at the level of AGI. A deal like that is surely worth more than 10B.