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

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

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

With OpenAI transitioning into a for-profit business, a new report claims that the company's partnership with Microsoft is even weirder than we knew.