Microsoft is expanding its investments in the field of artificial intelligence to become a stronger position in competition with OpenAI, which has long been in cooperation. The company focuses on developing its own large language models (LLM) as an alternative to OpenAI to use it in products such as Copilot. In addition, it aims to increase technological independence by testing different artificial intelligence providers.
This strategy of Microsoft reshapes his relationship with OpenAI, while at the same time heating the competition in the artificial intelligence sector. Microsoft, which has invested about $ 14 billion in OpenAI, is now aiming to strengthen its position in its market with its own artificial intelligence models.
According to The Information, Microsoft has developed its own “Reasoning” artificial intelligence models that can offer a similar performance to OpenAI’s O1 and O3-Mini. However, OpenAI refused to demand technical details of Microsoft’s O1. This may have led to the stretch of the relationship between the two companies.
In addition, Bloomberg has developed a new MAI model family that can compete with Microsoft OpenaI’s models. It is stated that these models of the company evaluates to offer these models to developers and corporate customers through an API during the year. This attempt is seen as part of Microsoft’s effort to monitor a more independent way in the field of artificial intelligence.
On the other hand, Microsoft not only develops its own models, but also tests artificial intelligence technologies of different companies such as XAI, Meta, Anthropic and Deepseek. These tests are thought to be performed to see how Copilot can work with alternative systems other than OpenAI. If Microsoft decides to work with a different supplier instead of OpenAI, there may be a major change in the artificial intelligence sector.
Although Microsoft makes major investments in OpenAI, it does not want to be dependent on a single company in the field of artificial intelligence. In this respect, the company added Mustafa Suleyman, one of the founding partners of Google Deepmind and Inflection AI to manage his work in the field of artificial intelligence. Under the leadership of Suleyman, it is expected to create a wider ecosystem by diversifying Microsoft’s investments in artificial intelligence.
Microsoft maintains its current partnership with OpenAI
Microsoft’s moves reflect the strategy of having more control in the artificial intelligence sector and increasing the competitive advantage. The company, which maintains its current partnership with OpenAI, also aims to strengthen its position in the market by developing new models and technologies.
These developments show that the dynamics in the artificial intelligence sector are changing rapidly and the competition between major technology companies is even harder. Microsoft’s efforts to reduce its dependence on OpenAI may change the balances in the sector in the coming period.