Microsoft’s billion-dollar OpenAI investment was trigged by Google fears, emails reveal

The Verge
By Tom WarrenMay 1, 2024, 12:30 pm205 pts
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 because it was “very worried” that Google was years ahead in scaling up its AI efforts. An internal email, titled “Thoughts on OpenAI,” between Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, CEO Satya Nadella, and co-founder Bill Gates…

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