Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped.
On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a handful of big changes to its long-standing OpenAI deal. Microsoft will remain OpenAI's "primary cloud partner, andOpenAIproductswill ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities." But OpenAI can "now serveallitsproducts to customers acrossanycloud provider." That lets OpenAI pursue its goals of courting enterprise custom ...