Microsoft was worried OpenAI would run off to Amazon and ‘shit-talk’ Azure

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. | Image: Getty Images

When OpenAI was engaged experimenting with AI-powered gaming bots, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were successful the aboriginal days of forming an AI partnership. Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman proceedings person provided a uncommon look astatine the communications betwixt Microsoft's apical executives astir investing successful OpenAI and fears the AI startup could "storm disconnected to Amazon" and "shit-talk" Microsoft.

Just days aft OpenAI showed a bot beating a Dota 2 professional successful the summertime of 2017, Altman responded to Nadella's congratulations email with a connection for a overmuch bigger concern with OpenAI to money its adjacent signifier of AI resear …

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