Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

Simon Willison Blog
Generative AI

For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. I decided to try and track its expression over time on openai.com. OpenAI, July 22nd 2019 in Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to us building beneficial AGI (emphasis mine): OpenAI is producing a sequence of increasingly powerful AI technologies, which requires a lot of capital for computational power.