Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that frames the “next phase” of one of the technology sector’s most consequential partnerships — preserving deep commercial ties while opening the door to multicloud compute, a governance restructure at OpenAI, and...
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Microsoft has quietly begun preparing the hardware and operational scaffolding to stop being a pure buyer of frontier AI models and instead build — and run — its own in‑house models at scale, telling employees it will invest heavily in dedicated chip clusters while keeping the OpenAI partnership...
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