Before OpenAI can go public via an IPO, it needs to come to an agreement with Microsoft about what Microsoft’s investment will be worth. Both companies are very different today than when that ...

A sudden breakup could make teasing out their integration a bit messy. Microsoft announced in May that its AI assistant, Copilot, would begin using GPT-4o, OpenAI technology that also powers the ...

Microsoft has been one of OpenAI’s biggest backers over the past three years, as OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT, has steadily embedded itself into our lives. But the multibillion-dollar ...

April 17, 2025: OpenAI has released o3 and 04-mini, two reasoning AI models designed to be extra good at programming, math, ...

OpenAI has been trying to break away from Microsoft for some time now. The main issue here is that Microsoft should not be able to access the intellectual property, i.e., OpenAI's services.

As OpenAI was ironing out a new deal with Microsoft in 2016 — one that would nab the young startup critical compute to build what would become ChatGPT — Sam Altman needed the blessing of his ...

The hybrid model allowed Microsoft to invest billions of dollars and acquire a 49 percent ownership stake in the for-profit arm of OpenAI. ( The nonprofit parent owns just 2 percent .) ...

Google has asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft's exclusive agreement to host OpenAI's technology on its cloud servers, the Information reported on Tuesday.

Email Microsoft didn’t want seen reveals rushed decision to invest in OpenAI Microsoft CTO made a ... the search giant may be forced to change its business practices or potentially even break up ...

What does it mean to me if OpenAI and Microsoft break up? Although much of the details about the ongoing negotiations matter more to the companies and their investors, if the companies do end ...

Microsoft has been one of OpenAI’s biggest backers over the past three years, as OpenAI’s flagship product, ChatGPT, has steadily embedded itself into our lives. But the multibillion-dollar ...