CoinVoice has learned that according to Jinshi reports, The Information disclosed that OpenAI CEO Altman hopes to transform this non-profit-managed AI development company into a for-profit company, and the biggest obstacle he faces is Microsoft. The company has significant influence in this process as it has committed to investing over $13 billion in OpenAI.
Since October of last year, the two companies have been negotiating potential changes to OpenAI's structure, with discussions primarily focused on four aspects:
Microsoft's equity in the for-profit entity; whether Microsoft will continue to be OpenAI's exclusive cloud service provider; how long Microsoft will maintain the right to use OpenAI's intellectual property to meet its product needs; whether Microsoft will continue to extract 20% of OpenAI's revenue.
It is currently unclear when OpenAI and Microsoft plan to complete this process, but both parties are moving quickly and are under time pressure: if OpenAI fails to complete the transition within the next two years, the recently financed investors can reclaim their funds, along with 9% interest—totaling approximately $7.2 billion. Company leadership has already informed employees that OpenAI hopes to buy back some of their shares after the transition to profitability, so employees currently have good reason to hope for a swift completion of this transformation. [Original link]