Artificial general intelligence has emerged as the potential escape hatch that could untangle the two companies.

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 OpenAI would stop allowing Microsoft to use any new technology it develops after AGI is achieved.

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

According to a report, OpenAI can only achieve AGI when it has built a system that can generate $100 billion in profits. For Microsoft, the definition of AGI is highly important. Due to a clause in the agreement, once OpenAI achieves AGI, Microsoft will not be able to access the most powerful models from the AI startup.