The Divorce that Will Define AI: Why OpenAI Will Leave Microsoft

The only thing more expensive than building AGI is renting it from someone who doesn’t need you

OpenAI was Microsoft’s smartest investment, and its most dangerous dependency.

For the past two years, Microsoft has enjoyed an uncanny run. It leapt ahead of Google by integrating GPT-4 into Bing before Gemini had a name. It embedded large language models across the Office suite with Copilot. It scaled Azure to meet the surging demand for inference. It …