Drawing on a review of financial documentation, The Information has conveyed that OpenAI anticipates a diminution in the proportion of its revenue disbursed to Microsoft, its investor and principal collaborator, by the close of the present decade.

This communiqué follows a week during which OpenAI executed a strategic volte-face concerning a substantial restructuring initiative, opting instead for an alternative schema whereby its profit-generating subdivision would transition into a public benefit corporation, yet remain under the aegis of its non-profit counterpart.

OpenAI is presently bound by an accord mandating the disbursement of a fifth of its gross revenue to Microsoft, yet the artificial intelligence firm has apprised its investors that it anticipates this proportion of revenue shared with its business associates, Microsoft notwithstanding, will halve to a tenth by the denouement of the current decade, as reported by The Information.

Microsoft has committed substantial investment, in the order of tens of billions, to OpenAI, cementing a partnership currently under contractual agreement until 2030, a pact featuring reciprocal revenue sharing. This comprehensive arrangement also grants Microsoft extensive rights to OpenAI's intellectual property for integration into its artificial intelligence offerings, alongside exclusive access to OpenAI's APIs operating on its Azure cloud platform.

According to a Bloomberg report on Monday, Microsoft has not yet acceded to OpenAI’s envisaged corporate framework, as the former ostensibly seeks to safeguard its multi-billion-dollar stake.

Requests for commentary from OpenAI and Microsoft remained, at the juncture, unanswered.