Topic: ip rights

  • Microsoft & OpenAI: A Partnership Locked Until 2032

    Microsoft & OpenAI: A Partnership Locked Until 2032

    The strategic alliance between Microsoft and OpenAI is now a long-term agreement extending to 2032, with Microsoft as the exclusive frontier model partner, ensuring stable collaboration on advanced AI technologies. Microsoft retains exclusive intellectual property rights and Azure API exclusivity...

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  • Microsoft-OpenAI Panel to Define When True AI Arrives

    Microsoft-OpenAI Panel to Define When True AI Arrives

    A new agreement establishes an independent expert panel to verify the arrival of AGI, removing this decision from OpenAI's sole authority and introducing oversight into their partnership. The deal extends Microsoft's exclusive partnership with OpenAI to 2032, solidifying its access to advanced mo...

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  • OpenAI's For-Profit Shift and New Microsoft Deal

    OpenAI's For-Profit Shift and New Microsoft Deal

    OpenAI has transitioned to a for-profit structure, forming the OpenAI Group PBC, with the original nonprofit becoming the OpenAI Foundation, which holds a significant equity stake and directs a $25 billion fund toward healthcare, disease research, and AI resilience. The restructuring resolves leg...

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  • Microsoft's Move Deepens OpenAI's AGI Crisis

    Microsoft's Move Deepens OpenAI's AGI Crisis

    Microsoft has restructured its partnership with OpenAI, gaining independent rights to pursue AGI development and extending its intellectual property access through 2032, even allowing competition against OpenAI. An independent expert panel is now required to verify any AGI declaration, addressing...

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  • Brands Can Now Use Famous AI Voices in Ads

    Brands Can Now Use Famous AI Voices in Ads

    ElevenLabs has launched the Iconic Voice Marketplace, enabling brands to license AI-generated voices of famous personalities ethically, with a consent-based model that ensures responsible usage and fair compensation. The platform serves as an intermediary, connecting businesses with rights holder...

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  • Microsoft Azure now offers Claude AI models via Anthropic partnership

    Microsoft Azure now offers Claude AI models via Anthropic partnership

    Microsoft and Anthropic have formed a major alliance, granting Azure customers access to Anthropic's Claude AI models through Microsoft Foundry, with Anthropic committing to $30 billion in Azure compute capacity. The partnership includes Nvidia, which is investing up to $10 billion to optimize Cl...

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