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Microsoft obtains an exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3

Microsoft announced an exclusive license to OpenAI's 175-billion-parameter GPT-3 language model, while OpenAI continued offering its public API. The agreement concentrated privileged commercialization rights and deepened the companies' frontier-model partnership.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM36confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

Exclusive commercial rights to a frontier general-purpose model strengthened concentration and competitive scaling incentives around a small number of firms. OpenAI's continued API access limited the exclusivity's practical scope.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 36 · confidence 94

    New source-verified September 2020 frontier-model licensing event absent from the durable corpus.

    11 Aug 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “Microsoft obtains an exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 36 and confidence 94 out of 100 in the competitive race category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “Microsoft obtains an exclusive license to OpenAI's GPT-3” as follows: Microsoft announced an exclusive license to OpenAI's 175-billion-parameter GPT-3 language model, while OpenAI continued offering its public API....

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