The cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

OpenAI and Microsoft could also be reaching an inflection level of their relationship, based on a report from The Wall Road Journal.

The report, citing nameless sources, says OpenAI executives have thought of publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive conduct all through their partnership. OpenAI executives additionally mulled whether or not to hunt a federal regulatory assessment of their contract with Microsoft.

OpenAI is making an attempt to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its mental property and computing sources, however the startup additionally wants the tech large’s approval to finish its for-profit conversion.

The 2 firms are in a standoff over OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup, Windsurf. OpenAI doesn’t need Microsoft to get Windsurf’s mental property — which might improve the cloud supplier’s personal AI coding instrument, GitHub Copilot — based on the report.

Whereas Microsoft was as soon as a serious accelerant to OpenAI’s progress, the businesses’ relationship has grown tense. In latest months, OpenAI has reportedly tried to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for cloud services.