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Microsoft and OpenAI's AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract
A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.
During an interview with him in May 2023, I asked about the deal between Microsoft and OpenAI that granted his company exclusive access to the startup’s groundbreaking AI technology. The tenuous conditions of that contract go to the heart of a raging debate about just how world-changing—and lucrative—AGI might be if realized, and what it would mean for a profit-driven company to control a technology that makes Sauron’s Ring of Power look like a dime-store plastic doodad. 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it has reached sufficient AGI, it doesn’t have to share those models with Microsoft, which will be stuck with the now outdated earlier versions.
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