“Microsoft’s Sudden AI Dominance Is Scrambling Silicon Valley’s Power Structure: The Company Has Quietly Cornered the Emerging Software Market, and It’s Preparing to Cash In”, 2023-06-15 (; backlinks):
…Both Altman and Nadella push back on these concerns, though in different ways.
Altman says OpenAI remains very much its own thing, though he concedes that if Microsoft were to cut his company off from its servers, its work would be effectively paralyzed. “I believe they will honor their contract”, he says.