May 11, 2025:
Microsoft, OpenAI Renegotiate Partnership Amid Tensions - OpenAI and Microsoft are in complex negotiations over their partnership. OpenAI is restructuring to maintain nonprofit control while becoming a for-profit public benefit corporation. Microsoft, having invested $13 billion, seeks clarity on its equity in the new entity. Discussions include Microsoft potentially giving up some equity for extended access to OpenAI technology post-2030.
The growing competition between the companies complicates the talks. This tension is influenced by OpenAI's expanding enterprise business and its ambitious Stargate project.
