Microsoft says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search

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says OpenAI is now a competitor in AI and search

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CEO Satya Nadella, right, greets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event in San Francisco on Nov. 6, 2023.

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‘s relationship with OpenAI has officially become more complicated.

On Tuesday,

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added the artificial intelligence startup to the list of competitors in the company’s

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. It’s a roster that for years has included mega-cap peers

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, Apple,

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and Meta.

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has a long-term partnership with OpenAI, serving as its exclusive cloud provider and using its AI models in products for commercial clients and consumers.

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is the biggest investor in OpenAI, having poured a reported $13 billion into the company.

But the new casting indicates they’re moving onto one another’s turf.

In the filing,

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identified OpenAI, the creator of the ChatGPT chatbot, as a competitor in AI offerings and in search and news advertising. Last week OpenAI announced a prototype of a search engine called SearchGPT.

Some companies choose to pay OpenAI for access to its models. Others go through

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’s Azure OpenAI Service. For those seeking an alternative to ChatGPT,

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’s Copilot chatbot is also available through the

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search engine and in Windows operating systems

An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC that nothing about the relationship between the two companies has changed and that their partnership was established with the understanding that they would compete. 

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******** a good partner to OpenAI, the spokesperson said. 

Still, it’s been a drama-packed year.

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CEO Satya Nadella

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wasn’t briefed before OpenAI’s board pushed out CEO Sam Altman in November. After Altman was quickly reinstated, OpenAI gave

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a non-voting board seat.

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relinquished the position earlier this month.

In March, Nadella brought on Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, an AI research company that predated OpenAI and was acquired by

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in 2014. Suleyman, who had co-founded and led startup Inflection AI, was named CEO of a new unit called

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AI, and several Inflection employees joined him.

Nadella ******** close to Altman.

“One of the things I love about Sam is every day he’s calling me and saying, ‘I need more, I need more, I need more,'” Nadella told The

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in a recent interview.

WATCH: OpenAI announces a search engine called SearchGPT

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#OpenAI #competitor #search

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