# 追踪现已失效的OpenAI与微软AGI条款演变史 - 来源：Simon Willison 博客 - 发布时间：2026-04-28 02:38 - AIHOT 分数：75 - AIHOT 标记：精选 - AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmoi4sasy008zsle9r8bupr9r - 原文链接：https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/now-deceased-agi-clause ## 精选理由 Simon Willison 把 OpenAI 和微软之间那个「AGI 条款」从诞生到死亡的完整时间线扒了出来，这种一手资料级别的梳理比任何分析都有说服力，关心 AI 商业格局的人值得花五分钟读完。 ## AI 摘要 微软与OpenAI的长期合作曾包含一项特殊条款：一旦实现通用人工智能（AGI），微软的商业知识产权将失效。AGI最初被模糊定义，后在2024年被具体量化为能为早期投资者产生约1000亿美元利润的系统。2025年，双方修订协议，规定AGI需经独立专家小组核实。2026年4月27日，双方宣布新合作阶段，微软对OpenAI知识产权的许可将延续至2032年（转为非独家），并停止收入分成，而OpenAI向微软的分成支付将持续至2030年且“独立于技术进展”。此举被广泛视为原有的AGI条款实质上已被废止。 ## 正文 Simon Willison’s Weblog Sponsored by: Teleport — Prevent access bottlenecks. Unify identity. Teleport replaces fragmented identity and access tooling with a single identity layer that security teams trust, and engineers want to use. Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause 27th April 2026 For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI’s relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft’s commercial IP rights to OpenAI’s technology would be null and void. That clause appeared to end today. I decided to try and track its expression over time on openai.com. OpenAI, July 22nd 2019 in Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support us building beneficial AGI (emphasis mine): OpenAI is producing a sequence of increasingly powerful AI technologies, which requires a lot of capital for computational power. The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them. But what is AGI? The OpenAI Charter was first published in April 2018 and has remained unchanged at least since this March 11th 2019 archive.org capture: OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI)—by which we mean highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work—benefits all of humanity. Here’s the problem: if you’re going to sign an agreement with Microsoft that is dependent on knowing when “AGI” has been achieved, you need something a little more concrete. In December 2024 The Information reported the details (summarized here outside of their paywall by TechCrunch): Last year’s agreement between Microsoft and OpenAI, which hasn’t been disclosed, said AGI would be achieved only when OpenAI has developed systems that have the ability to generate the maximum total profits to which its earliest investors, including Microsoft, are entitled, according to documents OpenAI distributed to investors. Those profits total about $100 billion, the documents showed. So AGI is now whenever OpenAI’s systems are capable of generating $100 billion in profit? In October 2025 the process changed to being judged by an “independent expert panel”. In The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership: The agreement preserves key elements that have fueled this successful partnership—meaning OpenAI remains Microsoft’s frontier model partner and Microsoft continues to have exclusive IP rights and Azure API exclusivity until Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). [...] Once AGI is declared by OpenAI, that declaration will now be verified by an independent expert panel. [...] Microsoft’s IP rights to research, defined as the confidential methods used in the development of models and systems, will remain until either the expert panel verifies AGI or through 2030, whichever is first. OpenAI on February 27th, 2026 in Joint Statement from OpenAI and Microsoft: AGI definition and processes are unchanged. The contractual definition of AGI and the process for determining if it has been achieved remains the same. OpenAI today, April 27th 2026 in The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership (emphasis mine): Microsoft will continue to have a license to OpenAI IP for models and products through 2032. Microsoft’s license will now be non-exclusive. 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. As far as I can tell “independent of OpenAI’s technology progress” is a declaration that the AGI clause is now dead. Here’s The Verge coming to the same conclusion: The AGI clause is dead. My all-time favorite commentary on OpenAI’s approach to AGI remains this 2023 hypothetical by Matt Levine: 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. 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