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OpenAI reportedly seeks big cuts to Microsoft revenue share

OpenAI is making some big changes.

On Monday, the company announced it was abandoning its plan to restructure itself, and is now moving forward with more modest changes to clear the way for future moves, like a potential IPO.

But OpenAI also has plans for some big changes to its $14 billion deal with Microsoft, including big cuts to the revenue sharing agreement it has with the tech giant.

According to The Information, OpenAI is seeking to halve the revenue it shares with Microsoft. Currently, the deal says that OpenAI will share 20% of its revenues with Microsoft until 2030. The report says OpenAI has been telling investors that number will drop to 10% by 2030.

Despite staggering costs, OpenAI has made some very optimistic forecasts for its future revenue, including possibly offering $20,000 per month “PhD-level agents.” OpenAI is expecting its revenue to triple this year to $12.7 billion.

The deal has been at the center of much speculation about tensions between the two companies and their CEOs.

According to The Information, OpenAI is seeking to halve the revenue it shares with Microsoft. Currently, the deal says that OpenAI will share 20% of its revenues with Microsoft until 2030. The report says OpenAI has been telling investors that number will drop to 10% by 2030.

Despite staggering costs, OpenAI has made some very optimistic forecasts for its future revenue, including possibly offering $20,000 per month “PhD-level agents.” OpenAI is expecting its revenue to triple this year to $12.7 billion.

The deal has been at the center of much speculation about tensions between the two companies and their CEOs.

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AI agent fatigue may be hitting enterprise customers

You may have noticed that recently, every piece of business or productivity software seems to have an “AI agent” feature that keeps getting pushed in front of you, whether you want it or not.

That’s leading to AI agent fatigue among enterprise customers, according to The Information.

Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle have been pushing their AI agent features to help with tasks such as customer service, IT support, and hiring. But many of those features are all powered by AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic, leading to a similar set of functions, according to the report.

As companies race to tack on AI agents to their legacy products, it remains to be seen which functions will become the “killer app” for enterprise AI.

Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Oracle have been pushing their AI agent features to help with tasks such as customer service, IT support, and hiring. But many of those features are all powered by AI services from OpenAI and Anthropic, leading to a similar set of functions, according to the report.

As companies race to tack on AI agents to their legacy products, it remains to be seen which functions will become the “killer app” for enterprise AI.

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Google’s Waymo has started letting passengers take the freeway

Waymo’s approach to robotaxi expansion has been slow and steady — a practice that has meant the Google-owned autonomous ride-hailing service that launched to the public in 2020 is only just now taking riders on freeways.

On Wednesday, Waymo announced that “a growing number of public riders” in the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Los Angeles can take the highway and are no longer confined to local routes. The company said it will soon expand freeway capabilities to Austin and Atlanta. It also noted that its service in San Jose is now available, meaning Waymos can traverse the entire San Francisco Peninsula.

Waymo’s main competitor, Tesla, so far operates an autonomous service in Austin as well as a more traditional ride-hailing service across the Bay Area, where a driver uses Full Self-Driving (Supervised). On the company’s last earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla would expand its robotaxi service to 8 to 10 markets this year.

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