Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

But OpenAI has received more than $13 billion in funding from Microsoft over the years, and that money has come with a strange contractual agreement that the startup would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved.

The definition was part of a 2023 agreement between the two tech giants. However, OpenAI's public definition of AGI on its website is slightly different, describing it as "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work.

With OpenAI transitioning into a for-profit business, a new report claims that the company's partnership with Microsoft is even weirder than we knew.

The AGI term actually describes a future state of development of AI models in which they are able to solve intellectual tasks at the level of humans. In a revised contract between Microsoft and OpenAI, this stage of development is now clearly redefined.