Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman recently joined Decoder to discuss the progression towards superintelligence and his company's evolving relationship with OpenAI, which notably announced its intent to go public on Monday. When directly questioned about whether Microsoft was leveraging its Build conference to assert independence from OpenAI, a sentiment captured by The Verge’s Hayden Field who likened it to a "freshly single divorcée," Suleyman offered a clear response:
“Definitely not. No, not at all. Look, I mean, obviously that’s a cool headline and a fun phrase. But the reality is that we are in partnership with OpenAI for years and years to come… So naturally, that’s going to continue. And so I think that’s just a natural course of these sorts of partnerships. I don’t think it’s anything untoward or surprising. I think OpenAI is very understanding and supportive of that. I mean, they’ve obviously been an incredibly fast-growing company, and they understand that we have to pursue our own agenda as well.”
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