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The Verge on 2024-05-01 18:30

Microsoft’s billion-dollar OpenAI investment was trigged by Google fears, emails reveal

An internal Microsoft email reveals the company was “very worried” about being years behind Google in AI. This triggered a $1 billion investment in OpenAI.

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