OpenAI, closer to mutating in a profit company, after forging an agreement with Microsoft

Microsoft and Openai forged a non -binding agreement on Thursday that would allow the dessert to restructure the startup of the led by Sam Altman and its eventual debut in the stock markets. Both parties would have resolved the complications of one of the most important associations in the technology branch.

The two companies have announced A memorandum of understanding about the next phase of your association And they say they are working on terminating the contractual terms to reach a definitive agreement. They have not transcended, however, the details of a financial nature of the agreement.

«Together we continue focused on putting the best tools of AI available to everyone Based on our common commitment to security, ”says Microsoft and Openai in a joint statement.

The agreement means an important advance in OpenAi efforts to metamorphose in a profit company and leaves behind the “nonprofit” structure for which it has been governed so far. The chatgpt matrix argues that this change is necessary to raise funds and compete with greater guarantees in the busy AI market. OpenAI currently has a value of around 500,000 million dollars.

Microsoft has invested at least 13,000 million in OpenAi since 2019 And, by virtue of its alliance with the company, a part of the income generated by Chatgpt and other AI tools is taken. However, the association of both companies has ended up becoming more complex in recent years as they have expanded their ambitions in the AI ​​field.

Openai would now have it easier to move forward with its metamorphosis in a profit company

Microsoftthat today contemplates Openai as a rival in this area of ​​activity, is developing its own AI models. And OpenAi has signed, meanwhile, important agreements in the “Cloud Computing” area with Oracle and Google with the last goal of reducing its dependence on the infrastructure of the Redmond company.

Besides, The restructuring plan projected by OpenAI to mutate in a profit company is running with not a few obstacles of regulatory nature. California general prosecutors and Delaware are investigating, not in vain, OpenAi’s restructuring plan. And Elon Musk and his XAI company have also sued Chatgpt’s matrix to stop their conversion into a profit company arguing that this would be betraying the purpose of “nonprofit” with which he originally left the shell.

The agreement alanzado yesterday for Microsoft and OpenAi will continue to guarantee the first company access to the technology of the second Even though the startup reaches at some point the general artificial intelligence phase (IAG), something that would have dynamited its alliance under the current contractual terms between one part and another.

Neither Microsoft nor Openai has revealed the proportion of the startup of AI that would be in the hands of the software giant based on the new agreement. It is also unknown if Microsoft would retain exclusive access to the latest OpenAi models.

The company led by Sam Altman hopes to complete its metamorphosis in a profit company at the end of this year. If the company does not eventually achieve its objective and its restructuring, it ends up delaying, it risks losing billions of dollars in financing.

A restructuring would make OpenAI easier when it comes to attracting capital of investors In an increasingly busy marking in which you rivals you with companies such as Google, Anthropic or Meta.