Microsoft revises agreement with OpenAI, targets new track of "superintelligence"

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Microsoft is developing a more powerful form of artificial intelligence, called "superintelligence," with hopes of making advances in areas such as medicine and materials science.

On November 6, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft’s AI division, published a blog post announcing that he will lead the newly established "Humanitarian Superintelligence" team, which aims for a hypothetical milestone even grander than Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Previously, Microsoft had reached an agreement with OpenAI not to participate in AGI development.

In the blog post released on Thursday, Suleyman stated that he will promote the development of personal AI assistants and strive for breakthroughs in healthcare and clean energy. He said:

"If Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is commonly regarded as the threshold where AI achieves human-level performance across all tasks, then superintelligence is the stage where it far surpasses human capabilities."

This announcement comes as Microsoft and OpenAI have just renegotiated their agreement. The new deal clarifies Microsoft's equity in the startup and revises some terms of their relationship, including the removal of a previous ban on Microsoft developing advanced AI tools. That restriction had limited the company, based in Redmond, Washington, to developing smaller, less powerful models, while the models used by ChatGPT are much more sophisticated.

Thursday’s announcement is effectively the formalization of a project Microsoft has been preparing since last March. At that time, Microsoft hired Suleyman and acquired intellectual property licensing from his startup Inflection AI. By restructuring Microsoft’s teams and recruiting new staff, Suleyman began building a new series of Microsoft AI models. However, so far, these models remain much smaller in scale than the most powerful products from OpenAI or Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet.

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