Operai is currently in “a difficult negotiation” with its largest investor and partner, Microsoft, According to the Financial Times.
The recently announced an important change To its corporate restructuring plans, although it aims to convert its commercial arm into a corporation of profit for profit, its non -profit board will remain in control.
The FT says it spoke with multiple sources that describe Microsoft, which has invested $ 13 billion in OpenAI to date, as a key holdout was needed to approve restructuring.
While the Quid of the negotiation is the amount of capital that Microsoft will receive in the new entity for profit, the companies are also renegotiating their broader contract, and Microsoft offers to renounce part of its capital in exchange for access to OpenAi technology developed after the current limit of 2030.
The sources also told the FT that these negotiations are complicated by the increasingly competitive relationship between the two companies, such as Operai’s business business has grown up And while pursuing your Savorously ambitious Stargate infrastructure project.