
Microsoft and OpenAI's AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract
Steven Levy
created: July 11, 2025, 12:11 p.m. | updated: July 14, 2025, 6:08 p.m.
Working on a feature about OpenAI, I learned that the contract basically declared that if OpenAI’s models achieved artificial general intelligence, Microsoft would no longer have access to its new models.
The Clause has been at the center of the increasingly frayed relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI and is under renegotiation.
There are two conditions that must be satisfied for OpenAI to deny its technology to Microsoft.
Unlike the first determination, Microsoft has to agree that OpenAI meets that standard, but can’t unreasonably dispute it.
In any case, if OpenAI decides it has reached sufficient AGI, it doesn’t have to share those models with Microsoft, which will be stuck with the now outdated earlier versions.
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