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Is OpenAI having a chilly relationship with Microsoft? Marc Benioff of Salesforce claims that his friendship ended after Satya Nadella hired Mustafa Suleyman, Sam Altman’s opponent.

In a recent interview at Davos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discussed the latest rift between Microsoft and OpenAI, expressing

Is OpenAI having a chilly relationship with Microsoft? Marc Benioff of Salesforce claims that his friendship ended after Satya Nadella hired Mustafa Suleyman, Sam Altman’s opponent.

In a recent interview at Davos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discussed the latest rift between Microsoft and OpenAI, expressing amusement over the latter’s choice to collaborate with SoftBank and Oracle on the $500 billion Stargate data center project, based on Tech Crunch.

Tech Crunch claims that this most recent development demonstrates that Microsoft is no longer the sole cloud provider for OpenAI, a significant position it had since investing $1 billion in the business in 2019. 

Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, added that the move of OpenAI to other platforms is very important, particularly since Microsoft is creating its own AI models and may not use OpenAI’s technology in the future.

Since mid-2023, when OpenAI introduced a rival enterprise offering, there have reportedly been increasing tensions between Microsoft and OpenAI. According to Tech Crunch, some insiders reported that it was frequently difficult for staff members from both firms to work along, with some OpenAI employees truly demeaning their Microsoft counterparts.

The recruitment of Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, by Microsoft to eventually manage its AI projects further exposed the partnership’s serious strain.

Despite the sudden division, Microsoft still holds a significant stake in OpenAI and has first dibs on any future resources that OpenAI might need, according to Tech Crunch. Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, has stated that he believes this advancement will be very beneficial for the company, which has invested in its competitor, Anthropic, and employs OpenAI models.

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