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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI
Microsoft Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, according to a report.
OpenAI is said to have refused Microsoft’s requests for technical details about how o1 works — stoking tensions between the firms. Parallel to those efforts, Microsoft is said to be testing alternative AI models from xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and DeepSeek as possible replacements for OpenAI technology in Copilot. Microsoft, which has invested around $14 billion in OpenAI to date, has looked to hedge its bets in a number of ways, including hiring DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead the tech giant’s AI efforts.
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