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.
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.
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Assessment history
- R1Toward 36 · confidence 94
New source-verified September 2020 frontier-model licensing event absent from the durable corpus.
11 Aug 2026