Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence
Summary
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, disclosed in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that a contractual change with OpenAI about six months ago granted his division formal authority to pursue 'superintelligence' using Microsoft's own researchers, data pipelines, and custom silicon. This signals a strategic inflection point: Microsoft is not abandoning OpenAI but building alongside it, with its first in-house model family released the same day.
Why it matters
Microsoft AI chief publicly confirms for the first time that the company has contractual authority to independently develop superintelligence, marking a shift from reliance on OpenAI to in-house innovation.
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