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Next phase of Microsoft, OpenAI partnership will be much better, posts Sam Altman on X

Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 29 Jan 2025, 07:19 am Print

Next phase of Microsoft, OpenAI partnership will be much better, posts Sam Altman on X Sam Altman

Sam Altman shares selfie with Satya Nadella. Photo Courtesy: Sam Altman X page

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared an image with his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella on X and announced that the next phase of partnership between the two firms is going to be 'much better' than ever before.

He wrote on the handle: "next phase of the msft x oai partnership is gonna be much better than anyone is ready for!!"

He did not share any further details about the partnership.

The partnership between the two firms assumes significance at a time when the rise in China's DeepSeek AI bot has hit the tech firms in the USA.

The Chinese AI bot sent ripples across the tech world  became the top AI application on Apple's iPhone App Store recently.

The capabilities of the app drew comparison with Open AI's ChatGPT.

However, it operated with fewer chips and less data, reducing cost and production costs.

Sam Altman reacted to the development of the bot and wrote on X: "Deepseek's r1 is an impressive model, particularly around what they're able to deliver for the price."

Recently, the tech firm announced  the Stargate Project, a new company, which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years to build new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States.

In a blog post, Open AI said: "We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately. This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world."

"This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies," it said.

The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX.

SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility.

Arm, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Oracle, and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners of the new initiative.