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Leaked Files Reveal OpenAI's Mega Payments to Microsoft: What's the Real AI Deal?

Recent leaks have uncovered staggering payments by OpenAI to Microsoft, highlighting a complex financial dance rooted in their cloud computing partnership. As OpenAI's costs for inference compute skyrocket, their reliance on Microsoft's Azure infrastructure and a 20% revenue-sharing model raises questions about profitability amidst AI's rapid evolution.

Nov 16

Leaked Files Reveal OpenAI's Mega Payments to Microsoft: What's the Real AI Deal?

OpenAI's Secretive GPT-5 Could Transform the AI Landscape

Rumors are swirling that OpenAI has developed GPT-5 but is keeping it under wraps. The model may be used internally for ‘distillation’ processes to train smaller, optimized models that tackle rising inference costs. By privately leveraging GPT-5, OpenAI avoids triggering a Microsoft partnership clause and may focus on improving efficiency over public model releases.

Jan 17

OpenAI's Secretive GPT-5 Could Transform the AI Landscape