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Microsoft’s star AI chief peers into OpenAI’s code, highlighting an unusual rivalry


DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman’s presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with its AI partner, but he is an asset if the software giant decides to go it alone.

But lately, one of DeepMind’s founders, Mustafa Suleyman, has been doing the unthinkable: looking under the hood at OpenAI’s crown jewels — its secret algorithms behind foundation models like GPT-4, people familiar with the matter said. OpenAI later formed a for-profit entity, using private capital to fund a massive effort to create large language models of unprecedented size, ultimately resulting in ChatGPT. Eventually, as AI models improve, Copilots could act as virtual assistants, completing tasks autonomously and changing the way humans interact with computers.

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