Microsoft feared being too dependent on OpenAI, Musk-Altman trial testimony reveals
- May 15
- 1 min read
CNBC — Discovery in the high-profile case showed that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was worried about OpenAI supplanting his company in the tech hierarchy as far back as April 2022, seven months before the launch of ChatGPT, the event that kicked off the generative AI boom and turned Altman into a household name.
“I don’t want to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft,” Nadella wrote in a email to executives that April, roughly three years after Microsoft wrote its first $1 billion check to OpenAI.
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