Simon Willison on Nostr: Today OpenAI announced that "Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue ...
Today OpenAI announced that "Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress"
That "independent of OpenAI’s technology progress" fragment appears to mean that the weird AGI clause is now deceased
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/now-deceased-agi-clause/Published at
2026-04-27 18:39:46 UTCEvent JSON
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