Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI

Beyond the selfies betwixt Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations betwixt the brace connected stage, each is not good with Microsoft's $13 cardinal AI investment. Over the past year, aggregate reports person painted a representation of a Microsoft and OpenAI narration that is straining nether pressure.

As OpenAI battles for entree to much compute powerfulness and little reliance connected Microsoft, tensions person been rising during negotiations implicit the aboriginal of OpenAI's concern and its Microsoft partnership. Microsoft backed down connected being the exclusive unreality supplier for OpenAI earlier this year, but OpenAI inactive needs Microsoft's support to person portion of its concern to a for-profit company. That's led to a perchance explosive outcome.

OpenAI executives person present reportedly considered accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior, which could mean regulators look adjacent much intimately astatine the presumption of Microsoft and OpenAI's declaration for imaginable violations of antitrust laws. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI's potential acquisition of AI coding instrumentality Windsurf is astatine the bosom of the latest standoff, arsenic OpenAI wants Windsurf to beryllium exempt from its existin …

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