--- title: "Microsoft revises agreement with OpenAI, targeting the new track of \"superintelligence\"" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/264693282.md" description: "Microsoft is forming a \"Humanitarian Superintelligence\" team, led by AI head Mustafa Suleyman, aimed at developing superintelligent systems that go beyond Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The initiative will focus on areas such as healthcare, clean energy, and personal AI assistants. This move marks a strategic shift for Microsoft following the renegotiation of its partnership agreement with OpenAI—previously, Microsoft had committed not to develop AGI, but the new agreement lifts those restrictions" datetime: "2025-11-06T16:16:17.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/264693282.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/264693282.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/264693282.md) --- > Supported Languages: [简体中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/264693282.md) | [繁體中文](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/264693282.md) # Microsoft revises agreement with OpenAI, targeting the new track of "superintelligence" Microsoft is developing a more powerful form of artificial intelligence called "superintelligence," hoping to achieve advancements in fields such as medicine and materials science. On November 6, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft's AI department, published a blog post announcing that he will lead the newly established "Humanitarian Superintelligence" team, which will aim for a more ambitious hypothetical milestone than general artificial intelligence (AGI). Previously, Microsoft had reached an agreement with OpenAI not to participate in the development of AGI. In the blog post released on Thursday, Suleyman stated that he would promote the development of personal AI assistants and focus on breakthroughs in healthcare and clean energy. He said: > "If general artificial intelligence (AGI) is generally seen as the threshold at which AI can perform at human levels across all tasks, then superintelligence is the stage at which it can far exceed human performance." This announcement comes as Microsoft and OpenAI have just reached a renegotiated agreement. The new agreement defines Microsoft's equity stake in the startup and modifies some terms of the relationship between the two parties, including lifting the previous ban on Microsoft developing advanced AI tools. This ban had restricted the Redmond, Washington-based company to developing smaller, less powerful models, while the models used by ChatGPT are significantly more powerful. Thursday's announcement effectively formalizes a project that Microsoft has been preparing since March of last year. At that time, Microsoft hired Suleyman and obtained intellectual property licenses from his startup Inflection AI. By restructuring the Microsoft team and recruiting new employees, Suleyman began building a new series of Microsoft AI models. However, so far, these models are still significantly smaller in scale than the strongest products from OpenAI or Alphabet's Google ### Related Stocks - [Microsoft Corporation (MSFT.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFT.US.md) - [OpenAI (OpenAI.NA)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/OpenAI.NA.md) - [GraniteShares 2x Long MSFT Daily ETF (MSFL.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFL.US.md) - [YieldMax MSFT Option Income Strategy ETF (MSFO.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFO.US.md) - [Direxion Daily MSFT Bear 1X ETF (MSFD.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFD.US.md) - [Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares (MSFU.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFU.US.md) - [T-Rex 2X Long Microsoft Daily Target ETF (MSFX.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFX.US.md) - [Kurv Yield Premium Str Microsoft ETF (MSFY.US)](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MSFY.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [OpenAI Raises $122 Billion in Funding Round Valuing Company at $852 Billion](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281345313.md) - [LIVE MARKETS-AI fears put Microsoft on track for worst quarter since 2008](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281048123.md) - [OpenAI Launches Bug Bounty Program To Cripple AI Weaponization](https://longbridge.com/en/news/280830008.md) - [OpenAI is now bringing in $2 billion a month - and 3 more highlights from its latest update](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281258023.md) - [Microsoft unveils AI upgrades, rolls out Copilot Cowork to early-access customers](https://longbridge.com/en/news/281024827.md)