Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.
The moment that every one who gave a shit about safety quit OpenAI you should have understood that there was no AI coming.
This has always been, and will always be about the money.
The google engineer who was saying google had AGI. The MS paper saying GPT had hints of AGI. The MS deal "you can have everything up to AGI".
The approach was one where a big enough model could be made to feed back in on it self (Q*). If we feed enough data into a big enough model then it will "tip over" and turn into AGI, or sentient or sapient... The problem is that this doesn't work, it never would have worked, the math does not support it. Pointing it back at it self doesn't get you more it gets you an ouroboros.
Why do you sign a deal "up to AGI" if you dont think you're close to AGI? They did, they were high on their own supply, reality set in, people look foolish, and they moved on.
Edit: Nevermind, looks like it's just a way to hype then!
M$ gets everything OpenAi does till they reach AGI.
The deal is "give me everything till you have that baby"