According to the reports, the Microsoft technology company and the OpenAi artificial intelligence firm are in conversations to renegotiate the investment agreement between the firm of AI and Microsoft, which is the largest financial sponsor in Openai.
According to a Financial Times report, Microsoft can give up a part of its capital in Openai for continuous access to the products and models of the AI company beyond 2030, when some of the original terms of an agreement signed between the two companies expire.
Microsoft has invested more than $ 13 billion in Openai since 2019, when it acquired an interest for the first time in the artificial intelligence firm.
Operai is trying to restructure the company to change its focus on earnings. However, these plans have with the rejection of co -founders such as Elon Musk and the first investors.
The agreement between OpenAi and Microsoft is essential for OpenAi restructuring and the future of the US starting company based in the US.
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Operai faces a firm recoil against profit shifts
Operai was founded as a non -profit entity in 2015 by businessman Elon Musk, technology businessman Sam Altman and Ia Ilya Sutkever researcher.
However, in 2024, the company bullen a corporate restructuring that would make the company a non -profit entity to a profit corporation.
Elon Musk has been one of the greatest critics of the Plan, questioning the legality of the change in proposition in a legal presentation of November 2024.
The technological billionaire also focused on the company on the development of closed code software, which said it was not Openai’s original objective.
“Operai was starting to act and meean to be open source. I called it ‘Openi’ after an open source, now it is, in fact, of closed code. It should be renowned from super closed toi to obtain the maximum benefit toi,” Musk touched an audience in the New York Times Dealbook.
In February 2025, a group of investors led by Musk presented an offer of $ 97.4 billion to take care of OpenAI. However, the agreement was flatly rejected by the CEO of Operai, Sam Altman.
More recently, on May 5, Openai announced that he was abandoning his change to a purely for profit model and is choosing to change to a public benefit corporation, a structure promoted by profits with legal obligations of fulfilling social or public goods.
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