Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition for AGI: reporting

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup’s profits, according to a new report from Information. By this definition, OpenAI is still many years away from achieving this.

The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stipulating that OpenAI only achieves AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate profits of at least $100 billion. This is a far cry from the strict technical and philosophical definition of AGI that many expect.

This year, OpenAI is expected to lose billions of dollars, and the startup has told investors as much It won’t make a profit until 2029.

This is an important detail because Microsoft Loses access to OpenAI technology when the startup arrives AGI, which is such a vague term It means different things to everyone. Some expected OpenAI to announce artificial general intelligence (AGI) sooner rather than later to take on Microsoft, but this agreement means Microsoft could have access to OpenAI’s models for a decade or more.

Last week, some debated whether OpenAI o3 model It was an important step towards AGI. While o3 may perform better than other AI models, It also comes with significant computational costswhich does not bode well for OpenAI and Microsoft’s profit-centric definition of artificial general intelligence.