OpenAI-Microsoft partnership

To be clear, I don't think Microsoft deliberately reversed OpenAI's alignment techniques, but rather it seemed that Microsoft probably received the base model of GPT-4 and fine-tuned it separately from OpenAI.

Microsoft's post "Building the New Bing" says:

Last Summer, OpenAI shared their next generation GPT model with us, and it was game-changing. The new model was much more powerful than GPT-3.5, which powers ChatGPT, and a lot more capable to synthesize, summarize, chat and create. Seeing this new model inspired us to explore how to integrate the GPT capabilities into the Bing search product, so that we could provide more accurate and complete search results for any query including long, complex, natural queries.

This seems to correspond to when GPT-4 "finished training in August of 2022". OpenAI says it spent six months fine-tuning it with human feedback before releasing it in March 2023. I would guess that Microsoft doing its own fine-tuning of the version of GPT-4 from August 2022, separately from OpenAI. Especially with Bing's tendency to repeat itself, it doesn't feel like a fine-tuned version of GPT-3.5/4, after OpenAI's RLHF, but rather more like a base model.

Then Microsoft still has capped-profit equity. Microsoft has no control, but gets OpenAI's IP until AGI.

Only until the capped-profit equity is canceled entirely, that being the point of the capped-profit part. So, even assuming that the IP sharing is baked into the equity rather than part of the repayment, it would only include any 'AGI' if OA made a relatively small amount of money on the way to AGI. Which the way things are going, is plausible but certainly not guaranteed.

Microsoft has no control, but gets OpenAI's IP until AGI

That seems like the ability to keep the IP forever, since I see no reason to assume that the release condition will ever be satisfied by making more powerful AI.

I was going to say that's worse than what I thought was the case, but I'm not actually sure about that. Partly because my thoughts were fuzzy, and partly because if Microsoft had access to OpenAI's stuff till they were payed $100B, then that may give them ~the same level of AI access. Both seem bad. 

Microsoft has no control, but gets OpenAI's IP until AGI

This could be cashed out a few ways--- does it mean "we can't make decisions about how to utilize core tech in downstream product offerings or verticals, but we take a hefty cut of any such things that openai then ships"? If so, there may be multiple ways of interpreting it (like microsoft could accuse openai of very costly negligence for neglecting a particular vertical or product idea or application, or they couldn't).

... but I'm suggesting that Microsoft's safety practices are as important as OpenAI's...

Who has claimed, or even implied, otherwise?

EDIT: I'm assuming at least one alternative viewpoint was encountered previously, so it doesn't seem like a big ask to spend 20 seconds to write down when that occurred for the benefit of the passing reader.

Perhaps I misread the implication and Zach has literally never encountered a different viewpoint on this.