Anonymous7 days ago
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman revealed at Build 2026 that a contract renegotiation with OpenAI roughly six months earlier formally freed Microsoft to pursue superintelligence independently, ending a restriction dating to the original 2019 partnership. The announcement, backed by seven new in-house MAI models and a rapidly expanding research team, marks a strategic inflection point that reshapes the competitive dynamics of frontier AI — even as regulators on three continents scrutinize the evolving Microsoft-OpenAI relationship.