Microsoft lists OpenAI as competitor in artificial intelligence, search

The connection between Microsoft and OpenAI has grow to be extra difficult. Within the 10-Okay doc submitted to the U.S. Securities and Change Fee (SEC), Microsoft formally listed OpenAI as a competitor, and the checklist additionally consists of corporations corresponding to Amazon, Google, and Meta which have existed earlier than.

Though Microsoft is OpenAI’s largest investor, having invested roughly US$13 billion in it and serving as its unique cloud service supplier, making use of OpenAI’s AI fashions to business and shopper merchandise, the partnership between the 2 corporations appears to be present process refined adjustments.

Within the submitting, Microsoft recognized OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, as a competitor in synthetic intelligence merchandise and in search and information promoting. Final week, OpenAI launched a prototype search engine referred to as SearchGPT.

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An OpenAI spokesperson stated that there was no change within the relationship between the 2 corporations, Microsoft stays a superb companion of OpenAI, and when the partnership was established, the 2 events had reached a consensus that competitors would possibly happen.

Nevertheless, relations between the 2 corporations have been turbulent this yr. In November final yr, OpenAI’s board of administrators ousted CEO Sam Altman with out Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s data. After Altman’s fast reinstatement, OpenAI gave Microsoft a non-voting board seat, however Microsoft gave up the seat earlier this month.

In March this yr, Nadella employed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleiman as the brand new CEO of Microsoft’s AI division, and several other Inflection staff additionally joined Microsoft. DeepMind is an AI analysis firm established sooner than OpenAI and was acquired by Google in 2014.