… Microsoft’s non-exclusive license for OpenAI models and products will now last through 2032, a two-year extension over the previous 2030 cutoff date. The revenue sharing is also one way now, so Microsoft no longer has to pay 20 percent of its Azure OpenAI revenue back to OpenAI. …
… Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed last month to allow pre-release review by the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation CAISI . …
… OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft.” Exhibit No. 105 An October 2020 test message exchange between Musk and Altman, with Altman reaching out to say he saw Musk’s posts on social media the prior week about Microsoft’s exclusive license to OpenAI’s GPT-3. …
… OpenAI quickly signed onto the terms Anthropic had spurned. And in the months after snubbing Anthropic, the Department of Defense signed deals with eight companies to deploy their AI on classified networks: Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection, Oracle, and SpaceX. …
… They’re just growth-oriented, and they think that OpenAI now has a problem with Sam Altman. The Microsoft piece is really interesting. …
… There’s a moment in the trial, sort of very funny message from Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, he says, “I don’t want to be Intel and have OpenAI be Microsoft,” which is very funny in the context of Microsoft CEO himself saying, “I don’t want to be the provider, and have them be the platform that pro… …
… If you’re the app that everyone’s doing everything in, that relationship gets intermediated, is that a tension? It’s a tension. At the same time, it’s a tension that everyone deals with. …