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405 OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder

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Sri Muppidi @ The Information 3 place · 06/16/2025 21:49 EDT

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder

Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging.

OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a roughly 33% stake in the reshaped unit in exchange for foregoing its rights to future profits, according to a person who spoke to OpenAI executives.

OpenAI also wants to modify existing clauses in its contract wit

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