Microsoft had no official say with the board when Altman, the company’s key contact, was fired.
That is partly as a hedge for the fact it has no control over the start-up’s board.
It involves the holy grail of OpenAI’s work: achieving artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I.
Scott Syphax, a corporate governance expert, told DealBook that the deal could raise red flags with regulators if it threatens the nonprofit’s tax-exempt status.
Another area Syphax is watching: the valuation that Microsoft placed on OpenAI after its investment and whether it acquired the I.P.
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