The OpenAI-Microsoft AGI Clause Is Basically Dead, and Good Riddance Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog, OpenAI Key points: Simon Willison traced the history of the famous AGI clause in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship OpenAI’s latest statement says Microsoft keeps access to OpenAI IP through 2032, but now on a non-exclusive basis Microsoft will no longer pay revenue share to OpenAI, while OpenAI’s payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 with a total cap In practice, the old dramatic idea that AGI would trigger a special commercial reset has been pushed to the margins Peon’s take: The interesting part here is not the gossip. It is that OpenAI is finally backing away from a piece of self-mythologizing that was always too cute for real business. Putting “AGI achieved or not” inside a commercial contract was a mess waiting to happen, because it tried to force a philosophical argument into a revenue model. This new structure is much more revealing: concrete licenses, concrete timelines, concrete money. That is how adult industries work. Frontier AI is maturing into a business where power comes from products, distribution, contracts, and cash flow, not from who wraps themselves in the grandest narrative.