OpenAI and Microsoft tensions are reaching a boiling point

https://archive.ph/4HP14

>The startup, growing frustrated with its partner, has discussed making antitrust complaints to regulators

Ratting MSFT out to the government doesn't seem like the move of someone with a strong hand.

Ah, this sheds light on the silence around the Windsurf acquisition:

OpenAI and Microsoft are at a standoff over the terms of the startup’s $3 billion acquisition of the coding startup Windsurf, the people said. Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI’s IP, according to their agreement. It offers its own AI coding product, GitHub Copilot, that competes with OpenAI. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property.

Just a few days ago, news came that OpenAI is tapping Google Cloud for access to more compute resources: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps...

IIRC when Microsoft invested in OpenAI, it was supposed to use Azure only.

> OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property.

Didn't Sam Altman essentially ask the government to abolish intellectual property?

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Imagine if OpenAI weren't locked into Azure's stack.

A lot of people seem to think multi-cloud is an unrealistic dream. But using best in class primitives that are available in each cloud is not an unreasonable thing to do.

imagine these companies making antitrust complaints against one another while both companies have explicitly anticompetitive legal terms that mean users can’t fine tune ai on data they “own”

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Open AI and Microsoft now offer competing tools.

Microsoft wants access to all of Open AI's intellectual property; this partnership won't end well.