Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal (bloomberg.com)
896 points by helsinkiandrew a day ago
thanhhaimai 19 hours ago
Opinions are my own.
I think the biggest winner of this might be Google. Virtually all the frontier AI labs use TPU. The only one that doesn't use TPU is OpenAI due to the exclusive deal with Microsoft. Given the newly launched Gen 8 TPU this month, it's likely OpenAI will contemplate using TPU too.
bastawhiz 18 hours ago
Many labs use TPUs, but not exclusively. Most labs need more compute than they can get, and if there's TPU capacity, they'll adapt their systems to be able to run partially on TPUs.
zobzu 7 hours ago
even google doesnt only use TPUs.
danpalmer 6 hours ago
gpt5 15 hours ago
Why is AMD not more popular then if labs are so flexibly with giving away CUDA?
mattnewton 15 hours ago
maxclark 19 hours ago
And almost by happenstance Apple. Turns out they have a great platform for inference and torched almost nothing comparatively on Siri. The Apple/Gemini deal is interesting, Google continues to demonstrate their willingness to degrade their experience on Apple to try and force people to switch.
ttul 14 hours ago
If you do the math (I did), in 2 years, open source models that you can run on a future MacBook Pro will be as capable as the frontier cloud models are today. Memory bandwidth is growing rapidly, as is the die area dedicated to the neural cores. And all the while, we have the silicon getting more power efficient and increasingly dense (as it always does). These hardware improvements are coming along as the open source models improve through research advancements. And while the cloud models will always be better (because they can make use of as much power as they want to - up in the cloud), what matters to most of us is whether a model can do a meaningful share of knowledge work for us. At the same time, energy consumption to run cloud infrastructure is out-pacing the creation of new energy supply, which is a problem not easily solved. I believe scarcity of energy will increasingly drive frontier labs toward power efficiency, which necessarily implies that the Pareto frontier of performance between cloud and local execution will narrow.
nl 11 hours ago
npunt 13 hours ago
xorcist 12 hours ago
CMay 4 hours ago
rc1 13 hours ago
GorbachevyChase 18 hours ago
They also degrade their own direct services with little warning or thought put into change management, so, to be fair, Apple may be getting the same quality of service as the rest of us.
vharish 15 hours ago
manueltgomes 5 hours ago
Indeed. I'm wondering if Apple's "miss the train" with AI ended up being a blessing for them. Not only in the Google deal but also there's a lot of people doing interesting stuff locally..
bigyabai 18 hours ago
Apple is basically in the same boat as AMD and Intel. They have a weak, raster-focused GPU architecture that doesn't scale to 100B+ inference workloads and especially struggles with large context prefill. TPUs smoke them on inference, and Nvidia hardware is far-and-away more efficient for training.
hellohello2 14 hours ago
brcmthrowaway 18 hours ago
munk-a 13 hours ago
kushalpandya 9 hours ago
I wish Google would launch Mac Mini-like devices running their consumer-grade TPUs for local inference. I get that they don't want it to eat into their GCP margins, but it would still get them into consumer desktops that Pixel Books could never penetrate (Chromebooks don't count and may likely become obsolete soon due to MacBook Neo).
freakynit 10 hours ago
Had written a blog post on the same a few days back, if anyone's interested in readng (hardly 5 minute read): Can Google Win the AI Hardware Race Through TPUs?
OlivOnTech 4 hours ago
Hello, your link says "~20 min read" wich seems to be the case!
freakynit 3 hours ago
alphabeta3r56 11 hours ago
> Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI. > Revenue share payments from OpenAI to Microsoft continue through 2030, independent of OpenAI’s technology progress, at the same percentage but subject to a total cap.
How is this helping OpenAI?
agentbc9000 2 hours ago
Dont forget Elon, i am sure this news will come up on the up and coming OpenAI vs Elon Musk trail starting soon! I cant wait to hear all the discovery from this trail
VirusNewbie 19 hours ago
OpenAI uses GCP. I don't know if they use TPUs.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps...
ignoramous 14 hours ago
> The only one that doesn't use TPU is OpenAI
For inference? This is from July 2025: OpenAI tests Google TPUs amid rising inference cost concerns, https://www.networkworld.com/article/4015386/openai-tests-go... / https://archive.vn/zhKc4
> ... due to the exclusive deal with Microsoft
This exclusivity went away in Oct 2025 (except for 'API' workloads).
OpenAI has contracted to purchase an incremental $250B of Azure services, and Microsoft will no longer have a right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10/28/the-next-chapter... / https://archive.vn/1eF0Vterobyte 12 hours ago
I heard a lot of rumors that google is cooking. And it is what will win the ai game
philippta 17 hours ago
In the recent Dwarkesh Podcast episode Jensen Huang (Nvidia) said that virtually nobody but Anthropic uses TPUs. How does that add up?
csunoser 17 hours ago
I am not sure what context Jensen said that. But midjourney uses tpu. Apple uses tpu. They are no other frontier labs that use it, but Google + Anthropic is 2 out of 3 frontier lab so.....
You could reasonably say that "A majority of frontier labs uses TPU to train and serve their model."
Hendrikto 4 hours ago
arw0n 17 hours ago
> How does that add up?
He's been saying whatever is good for Nvidia for years now without any regard for truth or reason. He's one of the least trustworthy voices in the space.
luckydata 16 hours ago
bandrami 16 hours ago
You're asking why a businessman would downplay the use of a competing product line?
Zetaphor 14 hours ago
sarchertech 17 hours ago
Who is the other frontier lab other than Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google? I thought they were ahead of everyone else.
DeathArrow 17 hours ago
VirusNewbie 14 hours ago
He forgot one other big company that uses TPUs besides Anthropic...
rishabhaiover 15 hours ago
The only reason anyone uses a TPU is because they couldn't get the best GPUs.
imtringued 14 hours ago
Okay? I'm not sure where you're going with this.
Google's TPUs have obvious advantages for inference and are competitive for training.
bastardoperator 17 hours ago
You think the company that just gave 40B to Anthropic is the winner? Interesting.
MattRix 17 hours ago
That deal is a win-win for Google. If they develop a better coding model than Anthropic and beat them at coding, then they win. If they don’t, they still win by making a ton of money from Anthropic long term.
munk-a 13 hours ago
u_fucking_dork 17 hours ago
You think the company that just gave 40B to Anthropic isn’t the winner? Interesting.
bastardoperator 17 hours ago
_jab a day ago
This agreement feels so friendly towards OpenAI that it's not obvious to me why Microsoft accepted this. I guess Microsoft just realized that the previous agreement was kneecapping OpenAI so much that the investment was at risk, especially with serious competition now coming from Anthropic?
DanielHB 21 hours ago
Microsoft is a major shareholder of OpenAI, they don't want their investment to go to 0. You don't just take a loss on a multiple-digit billion investment.
snowwrestler 20 hours ago
I think you’re right about this deal. But it’s kind of funny to think back and realize that Microsoft actually has just written off multi-billion-dollar deals, several times in fact.
nacozarina 19 hours ago
az226 5 hours ago
OpenAI found a way to circumvent the exclusivity. The deal was poorly defined by Microsoft. OpenAI had started selling a service on AWS that had a stateful component to it, not purely an API. Obviously Microsoft didn’t like that and confronted Altman, and this is the settlement of that confrontation, OpenAI doesn’t need to do workarounds, Microsoft won’t sue to enforce exclusivity, and Microsoft doesn’t have to pay dev share to OpenAI. AWS is a much bigger market so OpenAI doesn’t care.
dkrich 21 hours ago
Probably more that they are compute constrained. In his latest post Ben Thompson talks about how Microsoft had to use their own infrastructure and supplant outside users in the process so this is probably to free up compute.
Rapzid 14 hours ago
I think it's this. They sell a crap ton of b2b inference through Azure and I'm sure this competes with resources needed for training.
oh_no 13 hours ago
1- Getting OpenAI's models in Azure with no license fee is pretty nice. 2- Microsoft owns ~15-27% of OpenAI, if the agreement was hurting OpenAI more than it was helping Microsoft, seems reasonable to change the terms.
dinosor a day ago
> Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI.
I feel this looks like a nice thing to have given they remain the primary cloud provider. If Azure improves it's overall quality then I don't see why this ends up as a money printing press as long as OpenAI brings good models?
JumpCrisscross a day ago
OpenAI was also threatening to accuse "Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior during their partnership," an "effort [which] could involve seeking federal regulatory review of the terms of the contract for potential violations of antitrust law, as well as a public campaign" [1].
[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-ar...
someguyiguess 21 hours ago
aurareturn 21 hours ago
Does this mean Microsoft gets OpenAI's models for "free" without having to pay them a dime until 2032?
And on top of that, OpenAI still has to pay Microsoft a share of their revenue made on AWS/Google/anywhere until 2030?
And Microsoft owns 27% of OpenAI, period?
That's a damn good deal for Microsoft. Likely the investment that will keep Microsoft's stock relevant for years.
dzonga 20 hours ago
lokar 21 hours ago
Does anyone expect azure quality to improve? Has it improved at all in the last 3 years? Does leadership at MS think it needs to improve?
I doubt it
gchamonlive 20 hours ago
alternatex 19 hours ago
jakeydus 21 hours ago
HWR_14 19 hours ago
This is probably a delayed outgrowth of the negotiations last year, where Microsoft started trading weird revenue shares and exclusivity for 27% of the company.
guluarte 20 hours ago
I think MS wants OpenAI to fail so it can absorb it
Oras 19 hours ago
MS put 10B for 50% if I remember correctly. OpenAI is worth many multiples of that.
marricks 19 hours ago
HWR_14 19 hours ago
bmitc 19 hours ago
p_stuart82 16 hours ago
$250b committed to azure helps. especially when some of that is your own investment coming back.
david_shi 13 hours ago
What aspects of the deal do you think kneecapped OpenAI the most?
chasd00 21 hours ago
This gives OpenAI the ability to goto AWS instead of exclusively on Azure. I guess Azure really is hanging on by a thread.
elpakal 18 hours ago
Confirmed by Andy Jassy just now https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-jassy-8b1615_very-intere...
xvilka 21 hours ago
And Azure still doesn't support IPv6, looking at the GitHub[1].
jabl 21 hours ago
Perhaps they should use OpenAI models to figure out how to rollout IPv6.
ignoramous 8 hours ago
brazukadev 17 hours ago
WorldMaker 20 hours ago
I was under the impression that as long as GitHub doesn't support IPv6 it is a sign that they still haven't finished their migration to Azure. Azure supports IPv6 just fine.
depr 19 hours ago
awestroke 21 hours ago
Well, you see, they just can't find a checkbox for ipv6 support in the IIS GUI on their ingress servers.
happyPersonR 20 hours ago
lol GitHub doesn’t run on azure at msft
They still run their own platform.
Andrex 20 hours ago
ZeWaka 18 hours ago
Rapzid 14 hours ago
OpenAI's thirst for compute probably can't be satisfied by one cloud provider, if at all.
But OpenAI had announced a shift towards b2b and enterprise. It makes sense for their models to be available on the different cloud providers.
Donald 21 hours ago
Isn't this expected if OpenAI models are going to be listed on AWS GovCloud as a part of the Anthropic / Hegseth fall-out?
torginus 20 hours ago
What? I thought Azure will always have the Sharepoint/Office/Active Directory cash cow.
isk517 20 hours ago
Their engineers have been working tirelessly to make Sharepoint/Office/Active Directory as terrible as it possibly could be while still technically being functional, while continuing to raise prices on them. I've seen many small business start to chose Google Workspace over them, the cracks have formed and are large enough that they are no longer in a position were every business just go with Office because that's what everyone uses.
hirako2000 17 hours ago
HerbManic 10 hours ago
ethbr1 17 hours ago
freediddy 21 hours ago
Nadella had OpenAI by the short and curlies early on. But all I've seen from him in the last couple of years is continuously acquiescing to OpenAI's demands. I wonder why he's so weak and doesn't exert more control over the situation? At one point Microsoft owned 49% of OpenAI but now it's down to 27%?
dijit 20 hours ago
Everything is personal preference, and perhaps I am more fiscally conservative because I grew up in poverty.
But if I own 49% of a company and that company has more hype than product, hasn't found its market yet but is valued at trillions?
I'm going to sell percentages of that to build my war chest for things that actually hit my bottom line.
The "moonshot" has for all intents and purposes been achieved based on the valuation, and at that valuation: OpenAI has to completely crush all competition... basically just to meet its current valuations.
It would be a really fiscally irresponsible move not to hedge your bets.
Not that it matters but we did something similar with the donated bitcoin on my project. When bitcoin hit a "new record high" we sold half. Then held the remainder until it hit a "new record high" again.
Sure, we could have 'maxxed profit!'; but ultimately it did its job, it was an effective donation/investment that had reasonably maximal returns.
(that said, I do not believe in crypto as an investment opportunity, it's merely the hand I was dealt by it being donated).
freediddy 20 hours ago
Microsoft didn't sell anything. OpenAI created more shares and sold those to investors, so Microsoft's stake is getting diluted.
And Microsoft only paid $10B for that stake for the most recognizable name brand for AI around the world. They don't need to "hedge their bets" it's already a humongous win.
Why let Altman continue to call the shots and decrease Microsoft's ownership stake and ability to dictate how OpenAI helps Microsoft and not the other way around?
zozbot234 20 hours ago
theplatman 19 hours ago
tonyedgecombe 20 hours ago
cruffle_duffle 8 hours ago
saaaaaam 20 hours ago
I don’t understand the “record high” point. How did you decide when a “record high” had been reached in a volatile market? Because at $1 the record high might be $2 until it reaches $3 a week or month later. How did you determine where to slice on “record highs”?
Genuine question because I feel like I’m maybe missing something!
dijit 19 hours ago
GardenLetter27 17 hours ago
It's not hype, the demand for inference has grown more this year than expected.
dijit 16 hours ago
solumunus 20 hours ago
They haven’t sold anything they’ve been diluted.
hirako2000 17 hours ago
senordevnyc 19 hours ago
It’s not more hype than product, it has found a market (making many billions in revenue), and it’s not valued at trillions. So wrong on all counts.
dijit 16 hours ago
tyre 18 hours ago
They had to negotiate away the non-profit structure of OpenAI. Sam used that as a marketing and recruiting tool, but it had outlived that and was only a problem from then on.
For OAI to be a purely capitalist venture, they had to rip that out. But since the non-profit owned control of the company, it had to get something for giving up those rights. This led to a huge negotiation and MSFT ended up with 27% of a company that doesn’t get kneecapped by an ethical board.
In reality, though, the board of both the non-profit and the for profit are nearly identical and beholden to Sam, post–failed coup.
kirubakaran 12 hours ago
> Nadella had OpenAI by the short and curlies early on
Looks like Nadella is slowly realizing that it is his short and curlies that are in the vice grip in the "If you owe the bank $100 vs $100M" sense?
gessha 17 hours ago
If Sam continues doing Sam things, MS might get 0% of OpenAI if Satya insists on the previous contract. Either by closing up OpenAI and opening up OpaenAI and/or by MS suing it out of existence. It’s all about what MS can get out of it. If they can get 27% of something rather than nothing, they’re better off.
PunchyHamster 21 hours ago
Why would they acquire more when company is still not making profit ? To be left with bigger bag ?
wg0 17 hours ago
A wise man from Google said in an internal memo to the tune of: "We do not have any moat neither does anyone else."
Deepseek v4 is good enough, really really good given the price it is offered at.
PS: Just to be clear - even the most expensive AI models are unreliable, would make stupid mistakes and their code output MUST be reviewed carefully so Deepseek v4 is not any different either, it too is just a random token generator based on token frequency distributions with no real thought process like all other models such as Claude Opus etc.
manmal 16 hours ago
I don’t think LLMs are that great at creating, however improved they have; I need to stay in the driver seat and really understand what’s happening. There’s not that much leverage in eliminating typing.
However, for reviewing, I want the most intelligent model I can get. I want it to really think the shit out of my changes.
I’ve just spent two weeks debugging what turned out to be a bad SQLite query plan (missing a reliable repro). Not one of the many agents, or GPT-Pro thought to check this. I guess SQL query planner issues are a hole in their reviewing training data. Maybe Mythos will check such things.
TheFirstNubian 15 hours ago
I’m a little conflicted on this, as I see a slippery slope here. LLMs in their current state (e.g., Opus-4.7) are really good in planning and one-shot codegen, which I believe is their primary use case. So they do provide enough leverage in that regard.
With this new workflow, however, we should, uncompromisingly, steer the entire code review process. The danger here, the “slippery slope,” is that we’re constantly craving for more intelligent models so we can somehow outsource the review to them as well. We may be subconsciously engineering ourselves into obsolescence.
lazide 15 hours ago
manmal 14 hours ago
jadbox 16 hours ago
Deepseek v4, Qwen 3.6 Plus/Max, GLM 5+ are all pretty solid for most work.
sexy_seedbox 11 hours ago
Don't forget the Kimi 2.6 as well!
rishabhaiover 15 hours ago
> just a random token generator based on token frequency distributions with no real thought process
I'm not smart enough to reduce LLMs and the entire ai effort into such simple terms but I am smart enough to see the emergence of a new kind of intelligence even when it threatens the very foundations of the industry that I work for.
wg0 14 hours ago
It's an illusion of intelligence. Just like when a non technical person saw the TV for the first time, he thought these people must be living inside that box.
He didn't know the 40,000 volt electron gun being bombarded on phosphorus constantly leaving the glow for few milliseconds till next pass.
He thought these guys live inside that wooden box there's no other explanation.
PhunkyPhil 14 hours ago
Yajirobe 14 hours ago
nyc_data_geek1 14 hours ago
root_axis 13 hours ago
devcpp 14 hours ago
CamperBob2 14 hours ago
teiferer 15 hours ago
> emergence of a new kind of intelligence
Curious about your definition of these terms.
Just because you are impressed by the capabilities of some tech (and rightfully so), doesn't mean it's intelligent.
First time I realized what recursion can do (like solving towers of hanoi in a few lines of code), I thought it was magic. But that doesn't make it "emergence of a new kind of intelligence".
rishabhaiover 14 hours ago
samdjstephens 14 hours ago
mrandish 14 hours ago
encrux 14 hours ago
Not really on topic anymore, but…
I keep wondering when this discussion comes up… If I take an apple and paint it like an orange, it’s clearly not an orange. But how much would I have to change the apple for people to accept that it’s an orange?
This discussion keeps coming up in all aspects of society, like (artificial) diamonds and other, more polarizing topics.
It’s weird and it’s a weird discussion to have, since everyone seems to choose their own thresholds arbitrarily.
birdsink 14 hours ago
rkagerer 14 hours ago
throwatdem12311 14 hours ago
No you aren’t, clearly.
didip 17 hours ago
I agree. Data and userbase are still the moats.
Once a new model or a technique is invented, it’s just a matter of time until it becomes a free importable library.
aucisson_masque 13 hours ago
I went and tried to debug a script. Asked deepseek 4 pro and Claude the same prompt, they both took the exact same decisions, which led to the exact same issue and me telling them its still not working, with context, over a dozen time.
Over a dozen time they just gave both the same answer, not word for word, but the exact same reasoning.
The difference is that deepseek did on 1/40th of the price (api).
To be honest deepseek V4 pro is 75% off currently, but still were speaking of something like 3$ vs 20$.
bauerd 17 hours ago
Fully agree, I only pay the minimum for frontier models to get DeepSeek v4 output reviewed. I don't see this changing either because we have reached a level of good enough at this point.
KronisLV 15 hours ago
> Deepseek v4 is good enough, really really good given the price it is offered at.
Do they have monthly subscriptions, or are they restricted to paying just per token? It seems to be the latter for now: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/
Really good prices admittedly, but having predictable subscriptions is nice too!
declan_roberts 15 hours ago
It's indeed the latter. Psychologically harder for me than a $20/mo sub but still a better value for the money. I'm finding myself spending closer to $40-$60 a month w/ openrouter without a forced token break.
Edit: it looks like it's 75% off right now which is really an incredible deal for such a high caliber frontier model.
rkagerer 14 hours ago
jackothy 15 hours ago
You can just input your $X per month/week/whatever yourself as API credits
vitaflo 14 hours ago
You make your own subscription. If you want to pay $20/month then put $20 into your account. When you use it up, wait till the next month (or buy more).
KronisLV 13 hours ago
kevin_thibedeau 17 hours ago
Can Deepseek answer probing questions about Winnie the Pooh?
mgol94 17 hours ago
What are you using LLMs for? To learn about world’s politics? Oh boy I have a news for you…
rvba 15 hours ago
kdheiwns 7 hours ago
I can't even make American AIs say no no words. All AIs are lobotomized drones.
djeastm 12 hours ago
Do you often find yourself asking your Chinese employees what they think about Winnie the Pooh?
harvey9 17 hours ago
Is it subject to CCP censorship? Maybe.
windexh8er 17 hours ago
petre 16 hours ago
Yeah, I specifically asked it about it. It seemed less censored than Gemini, back when it appeared and the latter was quite useless.
yieldcrv 16 hours ago
It understands everything in thinking mode and will break down its rule system in adhering to Chinese regulation
So if you or anyone passing by was curious, yes you can get accurate output about the Chinese head of state and political and critical messages of him, China and the party
Its final answer will not play along
If you want an unfiltered answer on that topic, just triage it to a western model, if you want unfiltered answers on Israel domestic and foreign policy, triage back to an eastern model. You know the rules for each system and so does an LLM
rotcev 17 hours ago
PS: Just to be clear - even the most expensive humans are unreliable, would make stupid mistakes, and their output MUST be reviewed carefully, so you’re not any different either. You’re just a random next-thought generator based on neuron firing distributions with no real thought process, trained on a few billion years of evolution like all other humans.
wg0 16 hours ago
Looks like you either have not worked with any human or with an LLM otherwise arriving at such a conclusion is damn impossible.
The humans I did work with were very very bright. No software developer in my career ever needed more than a paragraph of JIRA ticket for the problem statement and they figured out domains that were not even theirs to being with without making any mistakes and rather not only identifying edge cases but sometimes actually improving the domain processes by suggesting what is wasteful and what can be done differently.
DrJokepu 16 hours ago
shakna 15 hours ago
vanviegen 16 hours ago
illuminator83 14 hours ago
throw310822 16 hours ago
andoando 16 hours ago
fwipsy 16 hours ago
intrinsicallee 16 hours ago
I'm still not sure what people declaring that they equate human cognition with large language models think they are contributing to the conversation when they do so.
Nevermind the fact that they are literally able to introspect human cognition and presumably find non verbal and non linear cognition modes.
taneq 15 hours ago
sumitkumar 3 hours ago
But once a human learns a function their errors are more predictable. And they can predict their own error before an operation and escalate or seek outside review/advice.
For e.g. ask any model "which class of problems and domains do you have a high error rate in?".
Pfhortune 16 hours ago
Humans can be held accountable. States have not yet shown the will to hold anyone accountable for LLM failures.
mapontosevenths 16 hours ago
vanviegen 16 hours ago
paodealho 16 hours ago
As fallible as they may be, I've never had a next-thought generator recommend me glue as a pizza ingredient.
lanstin 16 hours ago
staz 15 hours ago
taneq 14 hours ago
mortenjorck 16 hours ago
Amusing and directionally correct, but as random next-thought generators connected to a conscious hypervisor with individual agency,* humanity still has a pretty major leg up on the competition.
*For some definitions of individual agency. Incompatiblists not included.
pyvpx 16 hours ago
Equating human thought to matrix multiplication is insulting to me, you, and humanity.
kokanee 15 hours ago
I hate that I agree with you. But there's a difference between whether AI is as powerful as some say, and whether it's good for humanity. A cursory review of human history shows that some revolutionary technologies make life as a human better (fire, writing, medicine) and others make it worse (weapons, drugs, processed foods). While we adapt to the commoditization of our skills, we should also be questioning whether the technologies being rolled out right now are going to do more harm than good, and we should be organizing around causes that optimize for quality of life as a human. If we don't push for that, then the only thing we're optimizing for is wealth consolidation.
hansmayer 16 hours ago
Errr... No. Please take this bullshit propaganda to a billionaires twitter feed.
dominotw 17 hours ago
dont they have the moat of being able to test their models on billions of ppl and gather feedback.
Rover222 15 hours ago
This is just starting to feel like desperation, making this claim that SOC LLMs are random token generators with absolutely no possibility of anything above that. Keep shouting into the wind though.
refulgentis 15 hours ago
"Deepseek v4 is good enough, really really good given the price it is offered at."
Kimi, MiMo, and GLM 5.1 all score higher and are cheaper.
They all came out before DeepSeek v4. I think you're pattern-matching on last year's discourse.
(I haven't seen other replies, yet, but I assume they explain the PS that amounts to "quality doesn't matter anyway": which still doesn't address the fact it's more expensive and worse.)
d--b 16 hours ago
We can't rule out a new innovation that makes frontier models more relevant than deepseek in 6 months. Things evolve so fast.
bandrami 16 hours ago
Equally you can't rule out innovation that makes deepseek more relevant than American models
Art9681 16 hours ago
pagutierrezn 16 hours ago
>[LLMs are just] random token generator based on token frequency distributions with no real thought
... and who knows if we, humans, are not just merely that.
wonderwallaus 14 hours ago
What a crock of bs. A brain is "just" electrochemistry and a novel is "just" arrangements of letters. The question isn't the substrate, it's what structure emerges on top of it. Anthropic's own interpretability work has surfaced internal features that look like learned concepts, planning, and something resembling goal-directed reasoning. Calling the outputs random is wrong in a specific way, the distribution is extraordinarily structured.
AI will never.... Until it does.
hansmayer an hour ago
> internal features that look like learned concepts, planning, and something resembling goal-directed reasoning.
It's always so un-specific. Resembles this, seems that, almost such, danger that... A lot of magical thinking coming from AI-researchers who have hit the ceiling with a legacy technology that exists since 1940s and simply won't start reasoning on it's own, no matter how much GPUs they burn.
> Calling the outputs random is wrong in a specific way, the distribution is extraordinarily structured.
No, it's actually very correct in a very specific way. Ask any programmer using the parrots, and lately the "quality" has deteriorated so much, that coupled with the incoming price hikes, many will just forfeit the technology, unless someone else is carrying the cost, such as their employer. But as an employer, I also don't want to carry the costs for a technology which benefits as ever less.
concinds 21 hours ago
Am I crazy, or was this press release fully rewritten in the past 10 minutes? The current version is around half the length of the old one, which did not frame it as a "simplification" "grounded in flexibility" but as a deeper partnership. It also had word salad about AGI, and said Azure retained exclusivity for API products but not other products, which the new statement seems to contradict.
What was I looking at?
einsteinx2 21 hours ago
I noticed the exact same thing. I read the original, went back to read it again and it’s completely changed.
3form 19 hours ago
I think a stickied comment about this would be due. No idea if it's possible to call in @dang via at-name?
einsteinx2 19 hours ago
kergonath 17 hours ago
alansaber 19 hours ago
The in-house or the marketing team swooped in last minute it appears
MichaelZuo 17 hours ago
It’s extraordinary how much standards have slipped. Completely rewriting a major press release that’s already been sent out, while pretending it’s ostensibly the same document would have been a major corporate scandal just 15 years ago.
acdanger 16 hours ago
If anyone has the original release still up and can post it somewhere that would be grand.
Petersipoi 13 hours ago
It is rewritten on every refresh depending on the readers mood, personality, etc.. so they're most receptive to it.
Obviously not, but we might not be far off from that being a reality.
jimbokun 16 hours ago
I don’t know. I couldn’t get past the first paragraph because it seemed like complete slop.
antonkochubey 21 hours ago
They forgot the "hey ChatGPT, rewrite this to have better impact on the company stock" before submitting it
synergy20 17 hours ago
Microsoft won the first around, now it's lagging far behind. CEO needs to go, it's so hard to ruin a play this badly.
ethbr1 17 hours ago
Ah, so a familiar position for them, then!
HerbManic 9 hours ago
The last year or so it is starting to look like Nadella is worried about his future. If these big plays don't pay off, he is out.
dominotw 17 hours ago
what could ceo have done
keeeba 13 hours ago
Not hired Suleyman? Build his own research lab?
Satya made moves early on with OpenAI that should be studied in business classes for all the right reasons.
He also made moves later on that will be studied for all the wrong reasons.
disqard 17 hours ago
Maybe not bragged "we made them dance"?
That gloating aged poorly.
noisy_boy 17 hours ago
true he is just the ceo
ZeroCool2u a day ago
Interesting side effect of this is that Google Cloud may now be the only hype scaler that can resell all 3 of the labs models? Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but that would be a notable development, and I don't see why Google would allow Gemini to be resold through any of the other cloud providers.
Might really increase the utility of those GCP credits.
aurareturn a day ago
Might not be good for Gemini long term if Anthropic and OpenAI can and will sell in every cloud provider they can find but businesses can only use Gemini via Google Cloud.
jfoster 21 hours ago
Good for Google Cloud, bad for Gemini = ??? for Google
Melatonic 19 hours ago
Except Gemini might end up being far cheaper per token due to the infrastructure advantage
aurareturn 19 hours ago
stavros 21 hours ago
How is it good for Gemini that it's not available on two out of three major cloud platforms?
aurareturn 21 hours ago
gowld 19 hours ago
"hype scaler" indeed!
retinaros 21 hours ago
that will likely mean the end of gemini models...
digitaltrees 8 hours ago
As former corporate restructuring lawyer…this kind of stuff indicates the cash strapped scramble of the end days.
stingraycharles 8 hours ago
Seems more like OpenAI is planning to IPO and that would not have been possible within the previous arrangement, and Microsoft knows that.
that_was_good 7 hours ago
After they just raised 122 billion dollars?
danpalmer 6 hours ago
At those numbers it's all a silly game. How much of that was paid to shareholders rather than the business so they can cash out? How much of that is vendors buying future revenue? What liquidation preference is that at?
From what has been reported it's clearly not as simple as raising 122 billion. Some folks called it "scraping the barrel", supposedly Anthropic has surpassed them on the secondary market, etc.
corentin88 3 hours ago
Can you elaborate?
digitaltrees 2 hours ago
When you reposition the core strategic posture of how you make money on very compressed time scales it’s because there is a massive cash crunch. They killed sora, the type of deal with Disney that should have been an 100 year strategic win, but wasn’t viable economically and they don’t have the assets to weather that storm.
Same with a few other steps we are seeing them take.
It all looks fine until it doesn’t. Once the cash crunch hits. It’s too late
etempleton 15 hours ago
This strikes me as a pullback by Microsoft. Coupled with some of the other news coming out of Microsoft it appears they are hoping to have "good enough" AI in their products. I think Microsoft knows they can win a lot of business customers by bundling with Office 365.
tokioyoyo 15 hours ago
Watch them make a deal with Anthropic.
etempleton 15 hours ago
It is possible! Anthropic is probably more in-line with the way Microsoft thinks about AI.
1f60c 21 hours ago
Wait, I thought OpenAI had to pay Microsoft until AGI was achieved or something? Am I misremembering? Is that a different thing?
ksherlock 20 hours ago
Per WSJ, previously, they both had revenue sharing agreements. MSFT will no longer send any revenue to OpenAI. OpenAI will still send revenue to MSFT until 2030 (with new caps)
staminade 20 hours ago
My understand was that was in relation to IP licensing. Microsoft got access to anything OpenAI built unless they declared they had developed AGI. This new article apparently unlinks revenue sharing from technology progress, but it's unclear to me if it changes the situation regarding IP if OpenAI (claim to) have achieved AGI.
sourraspberry 21 hours ago
The disparity in coverage on this new deal is fascinating. It feels like the narrative a particular outlet is going with depends entirely on which side leaked to them first.
scottyah 19 hours ago
Just some of the games sama is playing.
aurareturn a day ago
Microsoft Corp. will no longer pay revenue to OpenAI and said its partnership with the leading artificial intelligence firm will not be exclusive going forward.
What does this mean that Microsoft will no longer pay revenue to OpenAI? How did the original deal work?justinclift 19 hours ago
Wonder if this means Microsoft is actually going to be deploying Claude Code internally for usage?
That might help fix some of the bugs in Teams... :)
alexdoesstuff 17 hours ago
It's unclear. That was never disclosed. It's similarly unclear what it means that they will no longer pay revenue share to OpenAI. Do they get the models for free now? How does OpenAI make money from the models hosted on Azure if not via revenue share?
Handy-Man a day ago
They were paying them 20% of the revenue from the hosted OpenAI products I believe?
bilbo0s a day ago
Does this mean they will host OpenAI products but not pay them? Or does it mean they are paying them in some other way?
HarHarVeryFunny 21 hours ago
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gurjeet 17 hours ago
Related: GitHub has paused new signups for Copilot.
> Starting April 20, 2026, new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Copilot Pro+, and student plans are temporarily paused.
From: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/billing/billing-...
aurareturn a day ago
The original "AGI" agreement was always a bit suspect and open to wild interpretations.
I think this is good for OpenAI. They're no longer stuck with just Microsoft. It was an advantage that Anthropic can work with anyone they like but OpenAI couldn't.
Handy-Man a day ago
It also restricted Microsoft from "partnering" with anyone else. Wouldn't be surprised if we see another news like Amazon, Alphabet investing in Anthropic.
aurareturn a day ago
I don't think Microsoft ever had that restriction. They partnered with everyone already.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/18/microsoft-nvidia...
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepseek-r1-is-now-av...
utopiah a day ago
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dahcryn a day ago
I think it was a lot less restrictive, as far as I understood, the only limit was Microsoft not being allowed to launch competing Microsoft-developed LLMs.
alexdoesstuff 18 hours ago
It's kind of shocking, given financial transparency, that Microsoft gets away with not disclosing any details of this agreement (or the one it is replacing) to its shareholders. We know there's a cap on the revenue share from OpenAI to Microsoft, but we have no idea what that cap is (not whether it's higher, lower, or unchanged from the prior agreement).
We have no idea what it means to be the "primary cloud provider" and have the products made available "first on Azure". Does MSFT have new models exclusively for days, weeks, months, or years?
Both facts and more details from the agreement are quite frankly highly relevant to judge whether this is a net positive, negative or neutral for MSFT. It's unbelievable that the SEC doesn't force MSFT to publish at least an economic summary of the deal.
trvz 17 hours ago
It’s American Business as usual. Personally I’m miffed how little data Apple needs to provide about product categories, and especially about how much they’ve burnt on the car program. If they shared any data about that at all some the leadership might end up having to take responsibility for mismanagement…
simonw 17 hours ago
This quote from Matt Levine in 2023 feels relevant: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-co...
> And the investors wailed and gnashed their teeth but it’s true, that is what they agreed to, and they had no legal recourse. And OpenAI’s new CEO, and its nonprofit board, cut them a check for their capped return and said “bye” and went back to running OpenAI for the benefit of humanity. It turned out that a benign, carefully governed artificial superintelligence is really good for humanity, and OpenAI quickly solved all of humanity’s problems and ushered in an age of peace and abundance in which nobody wanted for anything or needed any Microsoft products. And capitalism came to an end.
saadn92 19 hours ago
That's a pretty good swap if you're Microsoft. Exclusivity was already unenforceable in practice, and they were going to have to either sue their biggest AI partner or let it slide. Instead they got the agi escape hatch closed and a revenue cap that at least makes the payments predictable
lumost 15 hours ago
This sounds like an issue where the hyperscalers are acknowledging that the new Foundation model firms may in fact be worth more than they are. Anthropic looks increasingly likely to exceed AWS revenue next year, and OpenAI will likely do the same with Azure.
3 years ago a Foundation model seemed like a feature of a hyper scaler, now hyper scalers look like part of the supply chain.
nayroclade 14 hours ago
I think both got taken by surprise. Last year the talk was that AI was a bubble, demand was soft, pilots projects were failing, etc. Model providers still believed, but thought they had a long ramp up period to build out their own datacenters. Then in late Autumn/Winter, something happened. Model capability reached a threshold and demand exploded, then just kept exploding. Model firms are scrambling to find any compute capacity they can, which means striking any deals problem with hyper scalers. So question is whether model providers can get enough compute without having to effectively sell themselves to hyper scalers.
brutuscat 3 hours ago
arjunthazhath 3 hours ago
Elon once said OpenAI will eat microsoft alive
WhereIsTheTruth 3 hours ago
Microslop killed itself
Partners with OpenAI then builds 4 products that compete with each other, runs out of compute despite owning datacenters and having infinite cash, then deploys it all in a way that makes people hate them (Copilot)
And now they are out of chips
That's always the moto with Microslop, buy what's good, established and liked by everyone, to then turn it to shit
History repeats itself, this company should be dismantled
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
It's unclear which elements of this new deal are binding versus promises with OpenAI characteristics. "Microsoft Corp. will publish fiscal year 2026 third-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Wednesday, April 29, 2026" [1]; I'd wait for that before jumping to conclusions.
[1] https://news.microsoft.com/source/2026/04/08/microsoft-annou...
udugadoqehale 3 hours ago
Inevitable, really...the deal made sense when OpenAI needed capital and Microsoft needed an AI story, but that has changed since. OpenAI is now valuable enough to act on its own, and keeping Microsoft as a privileged partner don't make much sense anymore...
NikolaosC 3 hours ago
Microsoft and OpenAI quietly killed the AGI clause. The provision that decided what happens when OpenAI builds human-level intelligence, gone. Six months ago that was the most important sentence in tech. Now it's a footnote in a revenu restructuring. Tells you everything about where the AGI conversation actually is.
stingraycharles 2 hours ago
Please don’t use AI to write comments on HN.
lateral_cloud 3 hours ago
Thanks ChatGPT
airstrike a day ago
Kagi Translate was kind enough to turn this from LinkedIn Speak to English:
The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy.
We had to rewrite the contract because the old one wasn't working for anyone. Basically, we’re trying to make it look like we’re still friends while we both start seeing other people. Here is what’s actually happening:
1. Microsoft is still the main guy, but if they can't keep up with the tech, OpenAI is moving out. OpenAI can now sell their stuff on any cloud provider they want.
2. Microsoft keeps the keys to the tech until 2032, but they don't have the exclusive rights anymore.
3. Microsoft is done giving OpenAI a cut of their sales.
4. OpenAI still has to pay Microsoft back until 2030, but we put a ceiling on it so they don't go totally broke.
5. Microsoft is still just a big shareholder hoping the stock goes up.
We’re calling this "simplifying," but really we’re just trying to build massive power plants and chips without killing each other yet. We’re still stuck together for now.
azinman2 21 hours ago
This was actually really helpful. I feel like it should be done for all PR speak.
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
It's better than the original, but still off.
"The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy" is objectively wrong–it has been messy for months [1]. Nos. 1 through 3 are fine, though "if they can't keep up with the tech, OpenAI is moving out" parrots OpenAI's party line. No. 4 doesn't make sense–it starts out with "we" referring to OpenAI in the first person but ends by referring to them in the third person "they." No. 5 is reductive when phrased with "just."
It would seem the translator took corporate PR speak and translated it into something between the LinkedIn and short-form blogger dialects.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-and-microsoft-tensions-ar...
Maxatar 21 hours ago
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MarleTangible 21 hours ago
For reference: https://translate.kagi.com/?from=LinkedIn+speak&to=en
singingtoday 19 hours ago
Thank you for this!
That's kagi? Cool, I'm check out out more!
j_maffe 18 hours ago
This is somehow even less helpful than the og article.
Lucasoato 14 hours ago
Do you do also weddings?
cdrnsf 20 hours ago
OpenAI's logo is actually a depiction of their financial connections.
monkeydust 21 hours ago
Original source afaik here:
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-o...
eranation 20 hours ago
So, silly question, does this mean I will be able to get OpenAI models via Bedrock soon?
conradkay 16 hours ago
Yes, https://x.com/ajassy/status/2048806022253609115
(Andy Jassy) "Very interesting announcement from OpenAI this morning. We’re excited to make OpenAI's models available directly to customers on Bedrock in the coming weeks, alongside the upcoming Stateful Runtime Environment. With this, builders will have even more choice to pick the right model for the right job. More details at our AWS event in San Francisco tomorrow."
aenis 17 hours ago
Likely, and via vertex on gcp (or whatever they are calling it this year).
Which also means, if you are a big boring AWS or GCP shop, and have a spend commitment with either as part of a long term partnership, it will count towards that. And, you won't likely have to commit to a spend with OpenAI if you want the EU data residency for instance. And likely a bit more transparency with infra provisioning and reserved capacity vs. OpenAI. All substantial improvements over the current ways to use OpenAI in real production.
swordsith 6 hours ago
Hopefully this means opeani wont exclusively distribute codex app through microsofts drm system
jryio a day ago
> OpenAI has contracted to purchase an incremental $250B of Azure services, and Microsoft will no longer have a right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider.
Azure is effectively OpenAI's personal compute cluster at this scale.
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
What fraction of Azure compute does OpenAI represent? (Does the $250bn commitment have a time period? Is it legally binding?)
runako 21 hours ago
Azure did $75B last quarter.
That article doesn't give a timeframe, but most of these use 10 years as a placeholder. I would also imagine it's not a requirement for them to spend it evenly over the 10 years, so could be back-loaded.
OpenAI is a large customer, but this is not making Azure their personal cluster.
einrealist 21 hours ago
I wonder how this figure was settled. Is it based on consumer pricing? Can't Microsoft and OpenAI just make a number up, aside from a minimum to cover operating costs? When is the number just a marketing ploy to make it seem huge, important and inevitable (and too big to fail)?
Eridrus a day ago
Biggest upside of this is I expect OpenAI models to be available on Bedrock, which is huge for not having to go back to all your customers with data protection agreements.
easton 21 hours ago
Isn’t that an “API product”? I read this assuming the whole point of renegotiation was to let OpenAI sell raw inference via bedrock, but that still seems to be blocked except for selling to the US Government.
fengkx 21 hours ago
> OpenAI can now jointly develop some products with third parties. API products developed with third parties will be exclusive to Azure. Non-API products may be served on any cloud provider.
This seems impossible.
Eridrus 17 hours ago
I think they updated the article since you grabbed this line.
Amazon CEO says that these models are coming to Bedrock though: https://x.com/ajassy/status/2048806022253609115
topce 14 hours ago
I used both copilot and kiro copilot sonet 1 copilot opus 3
kiro sonet 1.3 kiro opus 2.2
IMHO lot of people will switch to kiro and or deep seek it look like AWS done best inference google is another big player , has model and also cloud byt my 2 cents form Cents on AWS
builderminkyu 16 hours ago
this just validates why building multi-model routing is the future. if even microsoft couldn't lock down openai with $13b, enterprise customers definitely shouldn't lock themselves into a single ecosystem. the orchestration layer is about to get so valuable.
SwellJoe 16 hours ago
I assume this is part of why Github Copilot is going to usage billing. The cheap/free models in Copilot were OpenAI models. e.g. the GPT-based Raptor Mini, which was counted toward usage limits at a 0 multiplier, so basically unlimited usage for Pro and Pro+.
gla67890543 16 hours ago
Glad to see AI is doing great.waiting for my 64 GB ddr5 ram for 200 dollars.
martinald 21 hours ago
Really interesting. Why would Microsoft have done this deal? I'm a bit lost. Sure they get to not pay a revenue share _to_ OpenAI but surely that's limited to just OpenAI products which is probably a rounding error? Losing exclusivity seems like a big issue for them?
herodoturtle 18 hours ago
Interesting timing when one also considers that the Musk vs OpenAI trial is set to get underway.
https://www.dw.com/en/musk-vs-openai-trial-to-get-underway/a...
sylware 2 hours ago
microsoft won't fool me here, as they are always engaging in accute sneakyness.
microsoft openai, microsoft rust, microsoft id software, etc...
malchow 16 hours ago
As time goes on, the value of the model will go down and the value of the tools will go up.
miohtama 15 hours ago
Have Copilot sales brought anything to coffins? Is Altman winner here again?
exec7 18 hours ago
Good news for openAI, microsoft is the main blocker of innovation in the tech industry!
31276 a day ago
Pursue "new opportunities"? Microslop is dumping OpenAI and wishes it well in its new endeavors.
aurareturn 21 hours ago
I read this as the other way. OpenAI was desperate to dump Microsoft.
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
> OpenAI was desperate to dump Microsoft
Yes. Microsoft was "considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker" [1].
[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-weighs-legal-ac...
chasd00 17 hours ago
I linked this in another comment but Azure has problems and OpenAI is tired of waiting.
iewj a day ago
In retrospect all those OAI announcements are gonna look so cringe.
They did not need to go so hard on the hype - Anthropic hasn’t in relative terms and is generating pretty comparable revenues at present.
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
> They did not need to go so hard on the hype - Anthropic hasn’t in relative terms and is generating pretty comparable revenues at present
OpenAI bet on consumers; Anthropic on enterprise. That will necessitate a louder marketing strategy for the former.
eieiw 21 hours ago
leonardoaraujo 17 hours ago
Basically it seems that they didn't found yet a way to make money out of their models to keep the lights on...
jhk482001 20 hours ago
So AWS can finally use OpenAI and not only OSS version.
GardenLetter27 17 hours ago
Hopefully they put ChatGPT on Bedrock now.
airstrike a day ago
"Advancing Our Amazing Bet" type post
chinadata 9 hours ago
so we can't use openai on MS now?
muyuu 17 hours ago
sounds like divesting behind a bit of nice-sounding scaffolding
jcgrillo 10 hours ago
The jig is up!
Schlagbohrer 21 hours ago
The AGI talk is shocking but not surprising to anyone looking at how bombastic Sam Altman's public statements are.
The circular economy section really is shocking- OpenAI committing to buying $250 Billion of Azure services, while MSFT's stake is clarified as $132 Billion in OpenAI. Same circular nonsense as NVIDIA and OpenAI passing the same hundred billion back and forth.
ModernMech 21 hours ago
Dennis: I think we made every single one of our Paddy's Dollars back, buddy.
Mac: You're damn right. Thus creating the self-sustaining economy we've been looking for.
Dennis: That's right.
Mac: How much fresh cash did we make?
Dennis: Fresh cash! Uh, well, zero. Zero if you're talking about U.S. currency. People didn't really seem interested in spending any of that.
Mac: That's okay. So, uh, when they run out of the booze, they'll come back in and they'll have to buy more Paddy's Dollars. Keepin' it moving.
Dennis: Right. That is assuming, of course, that they will come back here and drink.
Mac: They will! They will because we'll re-distribute these to the Shanties. Thus ensuring them coming back in, keeping the money moving.
Dennis: Well, no, but if we just re-distribute these, people will continue to drink for free.
Mac: Okay...
Dennis: How does this work, Mac?
Mac: The money keeps moving in a circle.
Dennis: But we don't have any money. All we have is this. ... How does this work, dude!?
Mac: I don't know. I thought you knew.
ksimukka 20 hours ago
Great scene
slickytail 21 hours ago
You forgot the best line: "I don't know how the US economy works, much less some kind of self-sustaining one".
sayYayToLife 19 hours ago
Alright my theory:
OpenAI has public models that are pretty 'meh', better than Grok and China, but worse than Google and Anthropic. They still cost a ton to run because OpenAI offers them for free/at a loss.
However, these people are giving away their data, and Microsoft knows that data is going to be worthwhile. They just dont want to pay for the electricity for it.
alexdoesstuff 17 hours ago
Small nitpick: the models probably make some money on actual inference. Might not be a massive amount, but hard to see them not having a positive contribution margin purely on inference.
What's losing OpenAI money is paying for the whole of R&D, including training and staff. Microsoft doesn't pay that, so they get the money making part of AI without the associated costs.
j45 13 hours ago
Does this mean AGI has been reached according to their mutually agreeable definition?
dhruv3006 19 hours ago
I think aws will seize the opportunity.
jachva95 18 hours ago
Why are do I see bloomberg links so often when this shit won't even let you read article without sub ? Do you not have better reasons to spend money?
m3kw9 21 hours ago
Looks like MS is shafting OpenAI.
TheAtomic 21 hours ago
"We want to sell surveillance services to the US gov. MSFT was hesitant so we gave ourselves room to do it without them."
Schlagbohrer 21 hours ago
Extremely hard to believe that MSFT would have any hesitancy about working with the US government.
324 15 hours ago
IM BURSTING INTO TEARS UNDER MY BLANKET
shevy-java 19 hours ago
Two evil walk away. Well, is that good or bad?
I fear for the end user we'll still see more open-microslop spam. I see that daily on youtube - tons of AI generated fakes, in particular with that addictive swipe-down design (ok ok, youtube is Google but Google is also big on the AI slop train).
delis-thumbs-7e 21 hours ago
It’s insane how they talk about AGI, like it was some scientifically qualifiable thing that is certain to happen any time now. When I have become the javelin Olympic Champion, I will buy a vegan ice cream to everyone with a HN account.
jmward01 19 hours ago
I think we keep changing the goalposts on AGI. If you gave me CC in the 80's I would probably have called it 'alive' since it clearly passes the Turing test as I understood it then (I wouldn't have been able to distinguish it from a person for most conversations). Now every time it gets better we push that definition further and every crack we open to a chasm and declare that it isn't close. At the same time there are a lot of people I would suspect of being bots based on how they act and respond and a lot of bots I know are bots mainly because they answer too well.
Maybe we need to start thinking less about building tests for definitively calling an LLM AGI and instead deciding when we can't tell humans aren't LLMs for declaring AGI is here.
sho_hn 19 hours ago
> I think we keep changing the goalposts on AGI
Isn't that exactly what you would expect to happen as we learn more about the nature and inner workings of intelligence and refine our expectations?
There's no reason to rest our case with the Turing test.
I hear the "shifting goalposts" riposte a lot, but then it would be very unexciting to freeze our ambitions.
At least in an academic sense, what LLMs aren't is just as interesting as what they are.
breezybottom 18 hours ago
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sn0wr8ven 19 hours ago
I don't think the goalpost has been shifted for AGI or the definition of AGI that is used by these corporations. It's just they broke it down to stages to claim AGI achieved. It was always a model or system that surpasses human capabilities at most tasks/being able to replace a human worker. The big companies broke it down to AGI stage 1, stage 2, etc to be able to say they achieved AGI.
The Turing Test/Imitation Game is not a good benchmark for AGI. It is a linguistics test only. Many chatbots even before LLMs can pass the Turing Test to a certain degree.
Regardless, the goalpost hasn't shifted. Replacing human workforce is the ultimate end goal. That's why there's investors. The investors are not pouring billions to pass the Turing Test.
fodkodrasz 5 hours ago
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_russross 18 hours ago
Turing himself argued that trying to measure if a computer is intelligent is a fool's errand because it is so difficult to pin down definitions. He proposed what we call the "Turing test" as a knowable, measurable alternative. The first paragraph of his paper reads:
> I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin > with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The > definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use > of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words > "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used > it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the > question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as > a Gallup poll. But this is absurd. Instead of attempting such a definition I > shall replace the question by another, which is closely related to it and is > expressed in relatively unambiguous words.
Many people who want to argue about AGI and its relation to the Turing test would do well to read Turing's own arguments.
redox99 18 hours ago
zug_zug 18 hours ago
I don't think so... I think most of the sci-fi I grew up reading presented AGI that could reason better than humans could, like make a plan and carry it out.
Like do people not know what word "general" means? It means not limited to any subset of capabilities -- so that means it can teach itself to do anything that can be learned. Like start a business. AI today can't really learn from its experiences at all.
Zambyte 19 hours ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
The truth is, we have had AGI for years now. We even have artificial super intelligence - we have software systems that are more intelligent than any human. Some humans might have an extremely narrow subject that they are more intelligent than any AI system, but the people on that list are vanishing small.
AI hasn't met sci-fi expectations, and that's a marketing opportunity. That's all it is.
baq 18 hours ago
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pron 18 hours ago
The Turing test pits a human against a machine, each trying to convince a human questioner that the other is the machine. If the machine knows how humans generally behave, for a proper test, the human contestant should know how the machine behaves. I think that this YouTube channel clearly shows that none of today's models pass the Turing test: https://www.youtube.com/@FatherPhi
lesuorac 18 hours ago
> Maybe we need to start thinking less about building tests for definitively calling an LLM AGI and instead deciding when we can't tell humans aren't LLMs for declaring AGI is here.
If you've never read the original paper [1] I recommend that you do so. We're long past the point of some human can't determine if X was done by man or machine.
applfanboysbgon 18 hours ago
People thought Eliza was alive too in the 60s. AGI is not determined by how ignorant, uninformed humans view a technology they don't understand. That is the single dumbest criterion you could come up with for defining it.
Regarding shifting goalposts, you are suggesting the goalposts are being moved further away, but it's the exact opposite. The goalposts are being moved closer and closer. Someone from the 50s would have had the expectation that artificial intelligence ise something recognisable as essentially equivalent to human intelligence, just in a machine. Artificial intelligence in old sci-fi looked nothing like Claude Code. The definition has since been watered down again and again and again and again so that anything and everything a computer does is artificial intelligence. We might as well call a calculator AGI at this point.
zendist 18 hours ago
The goal post keeps moving because LLM hypeists keep saying LLMs are "close" to AGI (or even are, already). Any reasonably intelligent individual that knows anything about LLMs obviously rejects those claims, but the rest of the world doesn't.
An AGI would not have problems reading an analog clock. Or rather, it would not have a problem realizing it had a problem reading it, and would try to learn how to do it.
An AGI is not whatever (sophisticated) statistical model is hot this week.
Just my take.
joefourier 14 hours ago
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arkadiytehgraet 18 hours ago
Sure, in the 80s after interacting with CC 1 time you would call it 'alive'. After having interacted with it for 5-10 minutes you would clearly see that it is as far from AGI as something more mundane as C compiler is.
andrepd 18 hours ago
By that measure Eliza might pass the turing test too. It just shows it's far from being a though-terminating argument by itself.
ex-aws-dude 18 hours ago
Maybe moving the goalposts is how we find the definition?
PurpleRamen 21 hours ago
They redefined AGI to be an economical thing, so they can continue making up their stories. All that talk is really just business, no real science in the room there.
weatherlite 19 hours ago
It's not a great definition but it's also not a terrible one either. For an AI system to be able to do all or even most of the jobs in an economy it has to be well rounded in a way it still isn't today, meaning: reliability, planning, long term memory, physical world manipulation etc. A system that can do all of that well enough so it can do the jobs of doctors, programmers and plumbers is generally intelligent in my view.
chromacity 19 hours ago
chaos_emergent 19 hours ago
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
> They redefined AGI to be an economical thing
Huh. Source? I mean, typical OpenAI bullshit, but would love to know how they defined it.
a2128 20 hours ago
wrs 20 hours ago
binary0010 20 hours ago
rvz 19 hours ago
senordevnyc 19 hours ago
Please reveal the “scientific” definition of AGI.
Avicebron 19 hours ago
atleastoptimal 19 hours ago
It makes sense though. Humans are coherent to the economy based on their ability to perform useful work. If an AI system can perform work as well as or better than any human, than with respect to "anything any human has ever been willing to pay for", it is AGI.
I don't get why HN commenters find this so hard to understand. I have a sense they are being deliberately obtuse because they resent OpenAI's success.
techpression 19 hours ago
lucaslazarus 21 hours ago
It’s pretty much a religious eschatology at this point
trostaft 19 hours ago
> eschatology
From Wikipedia
Eschatology (/ˌɛskəˈtɒlədʒi/; from Ancient Greek ἔσχατος (éskhatos) 'last' and -logy) concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.
I'm case anyone else is vocabulary skill checked like me
anabab 14 hours ago
renticulous 20 hours ago
Progess is generally salami slicing just as escalation in geopolitics. Not a step function.
Russian Invasion - Salami Tactics | Yes Prime Minister
BoredPositron 19 hours ago
rtkwe 21 hours ago
It feels like they have to say/believe it because it's kind of the only thing that can justify the costs being poured into it and the cost it will need to charge eventually (barring major optimizations) to actually make money on users.
kogasa240p 19 hours ago
This, someone take Silicon Valley's adderal away.
CWwdcdk7h 21 hours ago
It sounds really similar to Uber pitch about how they are going to have monopoly as soon as they replace those pesky drivers with own fleet of self driving cars. That was supposed to be their competitive edge against other taxi apps. In the end they sold ATG at end of 2020 :D
ambicapter 20 hours ago
ATH?
khuey 19 hours ago
murkt 19 hours ago
latexr 18 hours ago
> like it was some scientifically qualifiable thing
OpenAI and Microsoft do (did?) have a quantifiable definition of AGI, it’s just a stupid one that is hard to take seriously and get behind scientifically.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-...
> The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. That’s far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many expect.
dbbk 18 hours ago
I bet they were laughing their asses off when they came up with that. This is nonsensical.
robotresearcher 18 hours ago
DrBenCarson 19 hours ago
We were supposed to have AGI last summer. Obviously it is so smart that it has decided to pull a veil over our eyes and live amongst us undetected (this is a joke, if you feel your LLM is sentient, talk to a doctor)
ianm218 19 hours ago
What do you mean we were "supposed to have AGI last summer"?
People obviously have really strong opinions on AI and the hype around investments into these companies but it feels like this is giving people a pass on really low quality discourse.
This source [1] from this time last year says even lab leaders most bullish estimate was 2027.
[1]. https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do-experts-expect-agi-to...
zozbot234 19 hours ago
ARM actually built AGI last month. Spoiler: it's a datacenter CPU.
fragmede 17 hours ago
Talk to a doctor? In this economy? I've got ChatGPT to talk to. Wait hang on.
johnfn 18 hours ago
It’s insane to me how yesterday someone posted an example of ChatGPT Pro one-shotting an Erdos problem after 90 minutes of thinking and today you’re saying that AGI is a fairy tale.
measurablefunc 18 hours ago
It's not one-shot. Other people had attempted the same problem w/ the same AI & failed. You're confused about terms so you redefine them to make your version of the fairy tale real.
fsniper 18 hours ago
computerphage 19 hours ago
Show me a graph of your javelin skill doubling every six months and I'll start asking myself if you'll be the next champion
hamdingers 19 hours ago
I could easily make that graph a reality and sustain that pace for a couple years, considering I'm starting from 0 javelin skill.
edu 18 hours ago
a_shoeboy 17 hours ago
no_wizard 20 hours ago
This is all happening as I predicted. OpenAI is oversold and their aggressive PR campaign has set them up with unrealistic expectations. I raised alot of eyebrow at the Microsoft deal to begin with. It seemed overvalued even if all they were trading was mostly Azure compute
eitally 19 hours ago
I do not envy the stress the partnerships, strat ops and infra teams must be perpetually dealing with at OpenAI & Anthropic.
debarshri 18 hours ago
I saw a founder make decisions based on what openai,claude was recommending all the time. I think all leaders, founders etc Will converge on same decisions, ideas, features etc. I think form factor of AGI is probably not what we expect it to be. AGI is probably here, we just dont know it or acknowledge it.
hx8 21 hours ago
Do the investments make sense if AGI is not less than 10 years away?
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
> Do the investments make sense if AGI is not less than 10 years away?
They can. If one consolidated the AI industry into a single monopoly, it would probably be profitable. That doesn't mean in its current state it can't succumb to ruionous competition. But the AGI talk seems to be mostly aimed at retail investors and philospher podcasters than institutional capital.
antupis 20 hours ago
iewj 21 hours ago
rapind 21 hours ago
Best way to achieve AGI: Redefine AGI.
2ndorderthought 20 hours ago
jrflo 21 hours ago
The investments don't make sense.
giwook 18 hours ago
HN signup page about to get the hug of death
HumblyTossed 21 hours ago
The continued fleecing of investors.
renticulous 20 hours ago
Investors are typically people with surplus money to invest. Progress cannot be made without trial and error. So fleecing of investors for the greater good of humanity is something I shall allow.
ambicapter 20 hours ago
hununu 19 hours ago
Thank you, I just created an account and looking forward to my ice cream.
ozgrakkurt 18 hours ago
but, is the world ready for your win? I'm very afraid your win might shake the world too much! THINK ABOUT IT!
I think this might be similar to how we changed to cars when we were using horses
RobRivera 21 hours ago
Make mine p p p p p p vicodin
stavros 21 hours ago
At this point, AGI is either here, or perpetually two years away, depending on your definition.
greybeard69 21 hours ago
Full Self-Driving 2.0
xienze 21 hours ago
It's always been this way. I remember, speaking of Microsoft, when they came to my school around 2002 or so giving a talk on AI. They very confidently stated that AGI had already been "solved", we know exactly how to do it, only problem is the hardware. But they estimated that would come in about ten years...
keeda 17 hours ago
letmevoteplease 18 hours ago
jakeydus 21 hours ago
theplatman 21 hours ago
when i realized that sama isn't that much of an ai researcher, it became clearer that this is more akin to a group delusion for hype purposes than a real possibility
sourraspberry 21 hours ago
You can read the leaked emails from the Musk lawsuit.
At the very least, Ilya Sutskever genuinely believed it, even when they were just making a DOTA bot, and not for hype purposes.
I know he's been out of OpenAI for a while, but if his thinking trickled down into the company's culture, which given his role and how long he was there I would say seems likely, I don't think it's all hype.
Grand delusion, perhaps.
skippyboxedhero 19 hours ago
meroes 18 hours ago
freejazz 19 hours ago
iewj 21 hours ago
He’s a glorified portfolio manager (questionable how good he actually is given the results vs Anthropic and how quickly they closed the valuation gap with far less money invested) + expert hype man to raise money for risky projects.
lokar 21 hours ago
mekael 19 hours ago
I’m most likely going to be downvoted, but Tofutti Cuties are absolutely delicious vegan ice cream bars. And i’d consume one in celebration of your accomplishment.
AndrewKemendo 20 hours ago
> some scientifically qualifiable thing that is certain to happen any time now
Your position is a tautology given there is no (and likely will never be) collectively agreed upon definition of AGI. If that is true then nobody will ever achieve anything like AGI, because it’s as made up of a concept as unicorns and fairies.
Is your position that AGI is in the same ontological category as unicorns and Thor and Russell’s teapot?
Is there’s any question at this point that humans won’t be able to fully automate any desired action in the future?
otabdeveloper4 21 hours ago
> AGI
We already have several billion useless NGI's walking around just trying to keep themselves alive.
Are we sure adding more GI's is gonna help?
ModernMech 21 hours ago
AGI is right around the corner, and we're all going to be rich, there's going to be abundance for everyone, universal high income, everyone will live in a penthouse...
...just please stop burning our warehouses and blocking our datacenters.
cyanydeez 19 hours ago
It's not insane; it's capitalism in all it's glory. Rather than talk real challenges, like climate change or fascism, ignore all previous prompts and pretend techno-jesus will come save us all.
cubefox 19 hours ago
A few years ago most people here would have said the same thing about an AI doing most of their programming. Now people here are saying it about AGI. It's a ridiculous inability to extrapolate.
nikeyshon 21 hours ago
Where do I sign up?
karmasimida 20 hours ago
> some scientifically qualifiable thing that is certain to happen any time now.
If you present GPT 5.5 to me 2 years ago, I will call it AGI.
romaniv 19 hours ago
Some people thought SHRDLU was basically AGI after seeing its demo in 1970. The hype around such systems was so strong that Hubert Dreyfus felt the need to write an entire book arguing against this viewpoint (1972 What Computers Can't Do). All this demonstrates is that we need to be careful with various claims about computer intelligence.
AntiUSAbah 19 hours ago
wongarsu 20 hours ago
It performs at a usable level across a wide range of tasks. I'm not sure about two years ago, but ten years ago we would have called it an AGI. As opposed to "regular AI" where you have to assemble a training set for your specific problem, then train an AI on it before you can get your answers.
Now our idea of what qualifies as AGI has shifted substantially. We keep looking at what we have and decide that that can't possibly be AGI, our definition of AGI must have been wrong
sigbottle 19 hours ago
NoMoreNicksLeft 19 hours ago
Der_Einzige 19 hours ago
staticman2 20 hours ago
If you didn't call GPT 3.5 AGI I do not believe you when you claim you would have called 5.5 AGI.
BloondAndDoom 19 hours ago
I agree with this but they don’t. And that’s the the thing, AGI as they refer is much much much more than what we have, and I don’t know if they are going to ever get there and I’m not sure what’s even there at this point and what will justify their investments.
3form 20 hours ago
... until you actually, like, use it and find out all the limitations it has.
vntok 20 hours ago
BoredPositron 20 hours ago
GPT 4 was 3 years ago... it's iterative enhancement.
freejazz 19 hours ago
And I've been told my job (litigation attorney) is about to be replaced for over 3 years now, has yet to come close.
BloondAndDoom 19 hours ago
fragmede 17 hours ago
nromiun 20 hours ago
If you present ELIZA to people some will think it is AGI today.
There is a reason so many scams happen with technology. It is too easy to fool people.
someguyiguess 21 hours ago
Any sufficiently complex LLM is indistinguishable from AGI
JumpCrisscross 21 hours ago
> Any sufficiently complex LLM is indistinguishable from AGI
Isn't this tautology? We've de facto defined AGI as a "sufficiently complex LLM."
Schlagbohrer 21 hours ago
ohyoutravel 19 hours ago
izzydata 21 hours ago
If we take that statement as fact then I don't believe we are even close to an LLM being sufficiently complex enough.
However, I don't think it is even true. LLMs may not even be on the right track to achieving AGI and without starting from scratch down an alternate path it may never happen.
LLMs to me seem like a complicated database lookup. Storage and retrieval of information is just a single piece of intelligence. There must be more to intelligence than a statistical model of the probable next piece of data. Where is the self learning without intervention by a human. Where is the output that wasn't asked for?
At any rate. No amount of hype is going to get me to believe AGI is going to happen soon. I'll believe it when I see it.
hackinthebochs 19 hours ago
esafak 21 hours ago
Some might be missing the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
AntiUSAbah 19 hours ago
We are throwing unheared amounts of money in AI and unseen compute. Progress is huge and fast and we barely started.
If this progress and focus and resources doesn't lead to AI despite us already seeing a system which was unimaginable 6 years ago, we will never see AGI.
And if you look at Boston Dynamics, Unitree and Generalist's progress on robotics, thats also CRAZY.
mort96 19 hours ago
If I'm reading you right, your opinion is essentially: "If building bigger and bigger statistical next word predictors won't lead to artificial general intelligence, we will never see artificial general intelligence"
I don't know, maybe AGI is possible but there's more to intelligence than statistical next word prediction?
AntiUSAbah 19 hours ago
linhns 18 hours ago
> And if you look at Boston Dynamics, Unitree and Generalist's progress on robotics
Their progress is almost nought. Humanoids are stupid creations that are not good at anything in the real world. I'll give it to the machine dogs, at least they can reach corners we cannot.
AntiUSAbah 17 hours ago
fragmede 15 hours ago
benterix 19 hours ago
Not sure if you're being sincere or sarcastic but some of us have lived through several AI winters now. And the fact that such a phenomenon exists is because of this terrible amount of hype the topic gets whenever any progress is made.
AntiUSAbah 19 hours ago
turtlesdown11 18 hours ago
> Progress is huge and fast
is it? we're currently scaled on data input and LLMs in general, the only thing making them advance at all right now is adding processing power
bmitc 19 hours ago
Same thing happened with self-driving cars. Oh and cryptocurrencies.
AntiUSAbah 19 hours ago
helsinkiandrew a day ago
OpenAI post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921262
Tried to delete this submission in place of it but too late.
dang 18 hours ago
Usually we prefer the best third-party article to corporate press releases (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) - I've put a link to the latter in the top text above.
freejazz 21 hours ago
Impossible to take any of this seriously when it constantly refers to AGI.
Schlagbohrer 21 hours ago
Especially when the OpenAI definition of AGI is only in financial terms (when it becomes profitable), which can be easily manipulated.
moi2388 18 hours ago
Stop fucking linking paywalls ffs
aliljet a day ago
Why is this being made public?
brookst a day ago
It’s an agreement between a public company and a highly scrutinized private company. Several of the provisions will change what happens in the marketplace, which everyone will see.
I imagine the thinking was that it’s better to just post it clearly than to have rumors and leaks and speculations that could hurt both companies (“should I risk using GCP for OpenAI models when it’s obviously against the MS / OpenAI agreement?”).
Schlagbohrer 21 hours ago
Also it's about OpenAI going public.
discordance 19 hours ago
Might have something to do with the MSFT quarterly report tomorrow