Microsoft and Openai may re -negotiate

Openai is currently working in “difficult negotiations” with the largest investor and partner, Microsoft, According to the Financial Times.

AI recently start I announced a major change To plans to restructure companies-while it is still aimed at converting its business arm into a general benefit company, its non-profit council will remain in control.

FT says she has spoken to multiple sources describing Microsoft, who has invested $ 13 billion in Openai so far, as a major need to agree to restructure.

Although the essence of negotiation is the amount of shares that Microsoft will get in the new profit entity, companies also re -negotiate their broader contract, as Microsoft has offered abandoning some shares in exchange for access to Openai technology that was developed after the current 2030.

The sources also told FT that these negotiations are complicated by the increasing competitive relationship between the two companies, such as Openai’s Enterprise has grown And while you follow it The ambitious infrastructure project in Stargate.