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OPENAI AND MICROSOFT REPORTEDLY RENEGOTIATING PARTNERSHIP TO ALLOW FOR POTENTIAL IPO

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OpenAI and Microsoft are reworking their partnership to allow OpenAI to move forward with a restructuring plan to create a for-profit public benefit corporation controlled by its nonprofit parent. Microsoft may take a smaller equity stake in the new entity in exchange for extended access to OpenAI's technology beyond the previously agreed-upon 2030 cutoff. OpenAI plans to reduce the percentage of revenue it shares with Microsoft as part of the restructuring. It needs approval from Microsoft to proceed with its plan.