Many questioning why Microsoft would agree to this, but to me the concessions they made strike me as minor.
> OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner and Microsoft continues to have exclusive IP rights and Azure API exclusivity
This should be the headline - Microsoft maintains its financial and intellectual stranglehold on OpenAI.
And meanwhile, while vaguer, a few of the bullet points are potentially very favorable to Microsoft:
> Microsoft can now independently pursue AGI alone or in partnership with third parties.
> The revenue share agreement remains until the expert panel verifies AGI, though payments will be made over a longer period of time.
Hard to say what a "longer period of time" means, but I presume it is substantial enough to make this a major concession from OpenAI.
> OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner and Microsoft continues to have exclusive IP rights and Azure API exclusivity
This should be the headline - Microsoft maintains its financial and intellectual stranglehold on OpenAI.
And meanwhile, while vaguer, a few of the bullet points are potentially very favorable to Microsoft:
> Microsoft can now independently pursue AGI alone or in partnership with third parties.
> The revenue share agreement remains until the expert panel verifies AGI, though payments will be made over a longer period of time.
Hard to say what a "longer period of time" means, but I presume it is substantial enough to make this a major concession from OpenAI.