{"id":219095,"date":"2025-07-31T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/microsoft-in-talks-to-maintain-access-to-openais-tech-beyond-agi-milestone"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:15:36","slug":"microsoft-in-talks-to-maintain-access-to-openais-tech-beyond-agi-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/microsoft-in-talks-to-maintain-access-to-openais-tech-beyond-agi-milestone","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in talks to maintain access to OpenAI\u2019s tech beyond AGI milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-in-talks-to-maintain-access-to-openais-tech-beyond-agi-milestone2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI for a new agreement that would give it ongoing access to the startup\u2019s technology even if OpenAI achieves <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/26\/microsoft-and-openai-have-a-financial-definition-of-agi-report\/\">what it defines as AGI<\/a>, or advanced general intelligence. If the deal goes through, it would clear a key hurdle in OpenAI\u2019s transition toward becoming a fully commercial enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The companies have been negotiating regularly, and they could come to an agreement in a few weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-07-29\/microsoft-s-access-to-openai-tech-is-focus-of-contract-talks?embedded-checkout=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>, citing three anonymous sources. The report cited some of the sources as saying that while the talks have been positive, other <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/04\/11\/ex-openai-staff-file-amicus-brief-opposing-the-companys-for-profit-transition\/\">roadblocks<\/a> could emerge in the form of regulatory scrutiny and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/09\/musk-may-still-have-a-chance-to-thwart-openais-for-profit-conversion\/\">Elon Musk\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> to block OpenAI\u2019s for-profit transition.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI is <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/05\/openai-reverses-course-says-its-nonprofit-will-remain-in-control-of-its-business-operations\/\">currently structured<\/a> as a mission-driven nonprofit that oversees a capped for-profit company \u2014 a setup that\u2019s meant to limit how fully it can commercialize or raise money. That structure hasn\u2019t stopped it from raising billions and operating like a traditional tech company, but OpenAI still wants to shake off its constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly in advanced talks with OpenAI for a new agreement that would give it ongoing access to the startup\u2019s technology even if OpenAI achieves what it defines as AGI, or advanced general intelligence. If the deal goes through, it would clear a key hurdle in OpenAI\u2019s transition toward becoming a fully commercial enterprise. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}