Microsoft is extending its intellectual property ties with OpenAI even as it pushes to build its own frontier models in-house.
In a new interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the firm recently renegotiated with OpenAI in an effort to achieve what he calls “true AI self-sufficiency.”
The changes follow months of recalibration between the two companies, whose multibillion-dollar alliance has anchored Microsoft’s AI strategy since 2019.
Suleyman says the revised deal extends Microsoft’s IP license into the next decade.
“My personal mission at Microsoft is to build superintelligence. Three or four months ago, having renegotiated our long-term relationship with OpenAI, we extended our IP license through to 2032. And we also decided that this was a moment when we had to set about delivering on true AI self-sufficiency. I mean, after all this is the most important technology of our time.
We have to develop our own foundation models which are at the absolute frontier with gigawatt-scale compute, with some of the very best AI training teams in the world, and collecting, paying for, organizing, sorting all the data that we need to do that. And so that’s our sort of true self-sufficiency mission.”
The Microsoft AI chief seems to suggest that even with a renewed license in place, the company does not want to rely on any single external partner for what Suleyman called “the most important technology of our time.”
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