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There seems to be trouble brewing that could potentially drift Microsoft and OpenAI further apart.

According toThe Information, Microsoft is reportedly developing in-house reasoning models to give OpenAI a run for its money.

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Is Microsoft severing its ties with OpenAI?

This new development doesn’t come as a surprise.

Last year, a separate report detailed Microsoft’s complaints about OpenAI’s technology across its tech stack.

Microsoft and OpenAI share a complicated partnership.

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Microsoft staffers have blatantly branded the upgrade “a step backward.”

However, OpenAI is seemingly remaining tight-lipped about how it developed and trained its o1 reasoning model.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman previously requested OpenAI employees to provide documentation about o1’s development.

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However, his request was blatantly turned down.

Salesforce’s CEO claims, “Mustafa Suleyman and Sam Altman aren’t best friends.”

He attributed his deductions to last year’s Davos conference, where both executives were on the panel.

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He claimed that they seemed uneasy around each other, potentially highlighting friction between Microsoft and OpenAI.

This will help the company keep outsider interference and hostile takeovers at bay.

Elon Musk recently offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion.

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