Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says

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’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was literally chuckling when talking

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about the new rift in

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’s relationship with OpenAI. As part of OpenAI’s plans to team up with SoftBank and Oracle on a $500 billion data center project called Stargate,

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“I think it’s extremely important that OpenAI gets to other platforms quickly because

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is building their own AI and I don’t think

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will use OpenAI in the future. They’ll have their own frontier models,” Benioff predicted, laughing. “That’s why they hired Mustafa Suleyman. And Mustafa Suleyman and Sam Altman are not best friends.”

Benioff said their dislike was visible at the year-ago Davos show, “where Sam and Mustafa were on panels together and not getting along.”

The end of

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exclusively hosting OpenAI was destined to happen.

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invested $1 billion in OpenAI

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— years before OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022. Now, OpenAI appears bound for its own tech giant status, perhaps one day to rival

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. OpenAI has also

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a lack of available compute for product delays, indicating it needs more data center capacity than

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can (or perhaps wants to) provide. And OpenAI’s exclusive agreement with

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was to end whenever OpenAI achieved what

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Some reports indicate tension between the two companies has been building since at least mid-2023, after OpenAI released its own,

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. After Altman was fired and

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in late 2023, employees from both companies told

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they really don’t like working together. OpenAI’s folks tended to look down on those at

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, some employees said.

Just a few months later, in early 2024, Nadella thumbed his nose back by hiring DeepMind and Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to lead

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AI. (

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has not yet responded to our request for comment.)

While Benioff may hope that

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will fully abandon OpenAI in the future, that could be wishful thinking, although

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is

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working on its own LLM called MAI-1. Still, when

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earlier this month a new AI group led by Jay Parikh that will build AI agents and apps, the post didn’t even mention OpenAI.

This latest fissure in the partnership is good news for Benioff. Salesforce also

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, and is

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in OpenAI rival Anthropic.

Even so, Benioff’s observations about Suleyman aren’t completely off. Suleyman has been known to dismiss Altman’s vision especially around AGI, and admitted last month in an interview with

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that the OpenAI partnership has “little tensions here and there.”

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