OpenAI wants to be free from MS. The cost is 27% of ownership, which is about $135B currently, plus IP access until 2032. Considered MS invested about $10B initially, that’s a big concession on the part of OpenAI.
OpenAI’s Jakob Pachocki said on a call today that he expects that AI is “less than a decade away from superintelligence”
To sign this deal today, presumably you wouldn’t bother if AGI is just around the corner?
Maybe I’m reading too much into it.