The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.

The alliance between the two companies is slowly disintegrating. Here's a look at what's happened and what will be the likely outcome.

The cracks are showing in this unique tech partnership.

The most important AI partnership in the world partly revolves around whether OpenAI achieves AGI. I propose several practical tests.

A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.

Bloomberg cites data provided by Sensor Tower that found the Copilot app for iOS and Android has been downloaded about 79 million times, which, to be fair, is a pretty solid install base. The problem is that ChatGPT has already surpassed 900 million. You don’t have to ask a chatbot which number is bigger.

To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models. We thank OpenAI for their continued partnership ...

Despite recent controversies surrounding Musk’s Grok chatbot, xAI has secured a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $200 million. This positions the company alongside OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic as key suppliers of advanced AI for military projects.

The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft in many ways hinges on the definition of artificial general intelligence, creating a tension that has spilled over into OpenAI research that has not been made public.

Insiders say Microsoft's access to OpenAI's tech is central to ongoing talks because what OpenAI is required to share, and when, can be a gray area.

Microsoft has committed more than $10 billion toward OpenAI’s development in the landmark partnership, which established the Big Tech giant as a frontrunner in the race to develop advanced AI. 3